Patrick Caulfield
Patrick Caulfield ( born January 29, 1936 in London, † September 29, 2005 in London) was an English painter, printmaker and illustrator. He belongs to the British Pop Art
Life
Patrick Caulfield studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London from 1956 to 1960 and at the Royal College of Art in 1960 until 1963. He participated in the Young Contemporaries exhibition of the famous 1961, which the Royal College students to David Hockney, RB Kitaj, Allen Jones, Derek Boshier, Peter Phillips, introduced her to a stroke. After studying Caulfield returned as a lecturer at the Chelsea School of Art back ( 1963-1971 ).
In 1964 he was shown in the Pop Art New Generation exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. But Caulfield was not a typical pop artist. Influenced by Juan Gris, Léger and René Magritte, but he developed his own, linear style, which reproduced recognizable objects in outline only. But he also combined rectilinear forms with detailed elements on the type of photo realism. Caulfield also worked as a designer of posters, book covers and ceramics in 1973, he illustrated for Petersburg Press Poems of Jules Laforgue. At the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden he also designed stage sets for Frederick Ahtons Ballet Rhapsody.