Patrick Caulfield

Patrick Caulfield (born January 29, 1936 in London , † September 29, 2005 in London) was an English painter, printmaker and illustrator. He is part of British Pop Art .

Life

Caulfield's grave in Highgate Cemetery , London

Patrick Caulfield studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London from 1956 to 1960 and at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1963. He took part in the famous Young Contemporaries exhibition of 1961, which the Royal College students led by David Hockney , RB Kitaj , Allen Jones , Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips in one fell swoop. After graduation, Caulfield returned as a professor at the Chelsea School of Art (1963–1971).

In 1964 his work was shown in the Pop Art New Generation exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. But Caulfield was not your typical pop art artist. Influenced by Juan Gris , Legér and René Magritte , he developed his own, linear style that only reproduced recognizable objects in outline. He also combined straight lines with detailed elements in the style of photorealism. Caulfield also designed posters, book covers and ceramics, and in 1973 he illustrated poems by Jules Laforgue for Petersburg Press . At the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden he designed sets for Frederick Ahton's ballet Rhapsody .

Exhibitions

• 1961/62/63: Young Contemporaries , RBA Galleries, London
• 1964: New Generation , Whitechapel Gallery, London
• 1965: Solo exhibition at the Robert Fraser Gallery , London
• 1965: 4th Biennale, Salon de la Jeune Peinture , Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris. Caulfield receives the award for graphics.
• 1966: Solo exhibition at the Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
• 1967: International Graphic Exhibition in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
• 1977: Exhibition in Santa Monica, California
• 1978: Tate Gallery , London
• 1981: major retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London and the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool
• 1996: Solo exhibition at Curwen Gallery, London
• 1997, 1998, 2002: Solo exhibitions at Waddington Galleries, London
• 1998: Solo exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
• 1999: Solo exhibition at the Alan Cristea Gallery, London
• 1999: Solo exhibition at the Hayward Gallery , London
• 1999: Solo exhibition at Artforum Magazine Inc., New York
• 2000: Solo exhibition at Gwyther Contemporary, London
• 2000: Solo exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
• 2000: Solo exhibition at the Peter Gwyther Gallery, London

Awards

• 1987: Turner Prize

literature

• Marco Livingstone: Patrick Caulfield: Paintings. Lund Humphries Publishers, Aldershot et al. 2005, ISBN 0-85331-917-0 .
• Christopher Finch : Patrick Caulfield. Penguin, Harmondsworth 1971, ISBN 0-14-070622-4 , ( Penguin new art 2).

Web links

• Literature by and about Patrick Caulfield in the catalog of the German National Library
• Caulfield at the Tate Gallery
• Entry in www.artfacts.net
• Biographical information at www.getty.edu