Artist: Patrick Caulfield
Artwork: Lamp & Kuan Ware
Medium: Screenprint
Artwork Size: 116 × 90 cm
Lamp & Kuan Ware brings together the crisp lines, flattened perspective and carefully controlled areas of colour that define Patrick Caulfield’s distinctive approach to still life.
Caulfield frequently transformed familiar domestic objects into striking compositions, reducing them to simplified forms while playing with the relationship between object, space and representation. Here, the juxtaposition of the lamp and ceramic ware turns an everyday interior arrangement into a precisely constructed graphic image.
The work reflects Caulfield’s ability to find visual tension in apparently ordinary subjects. Clean outlines and an economical approach to detail give the composition an immediacy associated with Pop Art, while its considered treatment of space, light and objects reveals a more complex engagement with the traditions of still-life painting.
Lamp & Kuan Ware is a strong example of Caulfield’s unmistakable printmaking language and his distinctive position within post-war British art.
Artist: Patrick Caulfield
Artwork: Lamp & Kuan Ware
Medium: Screenprint
Artwork Size: 116 × 90 cm
Lamp & Kuan Ware brings together the crisp lines, flattened perspective and carefully controlled areas of colour that define Patrick Caulfield’s distinctive approach to still life.
Caulfield frequently transformed familiar domestic objects into striking compositions, reducing them to simplified forms while playing with the relationship between object, space and representation. Here, the juxtaposition of the lamp and ceramic ware turns an everyday interior arrangement into a precisely constructed graphic image.
The work reflects Caulfield’s ability to find visual tension in apparently ordinary subjects. Clean outlines and an economical approach to detail give the composition an immediacy associated with Pop Art, while its considered treatment of space, light and objects reveals a more complex engagement with the traditions of still-life painting.
Lamp & Kuan Ware is a strong example of Caulfield’s unmistakable printmaking language and his distinctive position within post-war British art.
