- Patrick Caulfield
Patrick Caulfield, CBE (
30 January ,1936 –29 September ,2005 ) was an English painter andprintmaker known for hispop art canvases.Life and work
Patrick Caulfield studied at the
Chelsea School of Art in 1956, and at theRoyal College of Art from 1960 to 1963, where his fellow pupils includedDavid Hockney andR. B. Kitaj . After he left, he returned to Chelsea as a teacher.In 1964 he exhibited at the "New Generation" show at
London 'sWhitechapel Gallery , which resulted in him being associated withpop art .From around the mid-1970s he began to incorporate more detailed, realistic elements into his work, "After Lunch" (1975) being one of the first examples. "Still-life: Autumn Fashion" (1978) contains a variety of different styles--some objects have heavy black outlines and flat colour, but a bowl of
oyster s is depicted more realistically, and other areas are executed with looser brushwork. Caulfield later returned to his earlier, more stripped-down, style of painting.Caulfield's paintings are figurative, often portraying a few simple objects in an interior. Typically, he uses flat areas of simple colour surrounded by black outlines. Some of his works are dominated by a single
hue .In 1987 Caulfield was nominated for the
Turner Prize and in 1996 he was made a CBE.On
24 May ,2004 , a fire in a storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection, including one or more by Caulfield.He died in 2005, and is buried in
Highgate Cemetery .Those who have followed his style includeMichael Craig-Martin and latterlyJulian Opie .External links
* [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=873&page=1 Caulfield at the Tate Gallery] (includes images of many of his pieces)
* [http://www.waddington-galleries.com/artists/caulfield/ Caulfield at the Waddington Gallery] (ditto)
* [http://www.waddington-galleries.com/artists/caulfield/bio/ Caulfield biography]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4298640.stm BBC News: Pop artist Patrick Caulfield dies]OXC
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