Patrick Caulfield

Patrick Caulfield is an English painter and printmaker who is linked to Pop art. His work is characterised by flat images of objects, that are drawn with angular geometric elements and diagrams, isolated and brought out with area's on solid colours. By doing this Caulfield simplifies the representation of objects to a basic black outline, presenting images as emblems of a different reality, creating a new reality, through the new lines and solid colours. This then links to the importance of an object, giving the objects value, even if they are in a different reality.

The reason I find Patrick Caulfield's work so successful is due to his aims and intentions shown clearly through his work. Making objects important in a new way through the basic lines and solid colour, representing the objects as something more than what they really are. Caulfield shows an interesting choice of line and colour to link to his aims and intentions, something i believe i must do to show my intentions. Thinking more about the materials and media to do this and in doing so, thinking more about how I used line with paints. i also find the way he draws the objects (mainly the chairs) very fascinating, drawing them as if they were diagrams or geomatric designs compared to a more realistics style, something I was told to research into more from my crit.