Bathroom Mirror - Patrick Caulfield
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Description
A 1968 screenprint by Patrick Caulfield, featuring a minimalist, graphic depiction of a bathroom mirror reflecting a tiled wall.
Bathroom Mirror is a screenprint by the British artist Patrick Caulfield, produced in 1968. The work demonstrates his characteristic approach to representation, where he employs a stark, graphic language to depict mundane domestic objects. Caulfield often utilised flat areas of colour bounded by uniform black outlines, a technique that draws from commercial signage and comic book aesthetics.
In this composition, the artist focuses on the reflection of a tiled wall within a mirror. The grid of the tiles on the wall is rendered as a series of straight, vertical and horizontal lines. Within the rectangular frame of the mirror, these lines are distorted into a diamond pattern, suggesting the curvature or angle of the glass. The colour palette is restricted to shades of turquoise, creating a cool, clinical atmosphere that aligns with the subject matter of a bathroom.
Caulfield avoids painterly brushwork or expressive texture. Instead, he presents a clean, detached view of the environment. By isolating the mirror and the tiles, he invites the viewer to consider the formal qualities of the image rather than its narrative content. The work functions as a study of perspective and spatial illusion, achieved through the simplest of means. The screws visible in the corners of the mirror provide a subtle anchor to the reality of the object, contrasting with the abstract geometry of the reflected grid. This print is representative of Caulfield's contribution to British Pop Art, where he moved away from the chaotic imagery of his contemporaries to pursue a more controlled, precise style of painting and printmaking.
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Bathroom Mirror - Patrick Caulfield
Artist Biography
Patrick Caulfield
He joined the RAF at seventeen for national service, then studied at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1963, alongside Hockney, Allen Jones, R.B. Kitaj, and Derek Boshier. The 1964 New Generation exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery tagged him as Pop Art. He rejected the label for the rest of his life, calling himself a formal artist.
His paintings use bold, flat outlines and blocks of colour. They depict interiors, still lifes, restaurants, and domestic scenes with a deadpan quality that sits somewhere between commercial illustration and painting. The spaces are often empty or nearly so. A potted plant, a wine glass, a candle: the objects are ordinary but the treatment makes them strange. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1987. David Bowie and Charles Saatchi both collected his work. He died in 2005. The street in Acton where he was born was renamed Caulfield Road.
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