Coloured Still Life - Patrick Caulfield
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Description
A 1967 screenprint by Patrick Caulfield, featuring a collection of everyday objects rendered in bold, flat colours and thick black outlines.
Patrick Caulfield, a central figure in British Pop Art, produced this screenprint in 1967. The work demonstrates his characteristic approach to the still life genre, which relies on simplified forms and bold, black outlines. By stripping away the traditional textures and shading associated with the subject, Caulfield focuses the viewer on the essential geometry of the objects: a jug, several glasses, and a bowl.
The composition is deliberately flat, rejecting the illusion of three-dimensional space. The objects are arranged against a solid, uniform blue background, which forces the primary colours of the vessels to the front. The red jug, yellow glass, and green bowl appear as graphic symbols rather than realistic representations. This method of reduction allows the artist to explore the relationship between colour and shape, rather than the physical properties of the objects themselves.
Caulfield often drew inspiration from commercial art and signage, adopting a clean, impersonal aesthetic that contrasts with the expressive brushwork of his contemporaries. His work maintains a sense of detachment, treating the domestic items with a clinical precision. The screenprint medium is particularly suited to this style, as it allows for the flat, saturated areas of colour that define his visual language. This piece remains a clear example of his ability to transform mundane, everyday items into objects of formal interest through strict simplification and a controlled palette.
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Coloured Still Life - 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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