And I am alone in my house
Patrick Caulfield; Frank Kicherer; Advanced Graphics ; Petersburg Press; Waddington Graphics
Description
Subject Matter:
Eighteenth in a series of twenty-two, this print accompanies a book of poems by the French poet and art critic Jules Laforgue and screenprints by British Pop artist Patrick Caulfield. Admired by the artist, Laforgue was a nineteenth-century symbolist poet who was one of the inventors of vers libre or "free verse" poetry. This new form of poetic verse relied on the phrase as a unit rather than constraining the poetic verse to set numbers of syllables. Lafbservations of everyday life with poetic associations. In this book, Caulfield used the long-dead poets verses as inspiration for twenty-two scenes, created in colorful screenprint. Of these prints, Caulfield noted that “They are not illustrations but complementary images. There are few visually descriptive lines in Laforgue. The images suggest the things I have imagined the poet seeing when he wrote the poem…”
Physical Description:
This print has a large grid pattern where the lines are colored in with yellow and blue, with green at the intersections, and outlined in thick black lines. In between the colored grid is solid white. The grid is distorted as to suggest a recession into space to the upper right. In the lower portion of the print, there are a series of small objects outlined in white. One of those objects has a red tip and resembles a match. This print is signed and editioned by the artist in pencil (l.r.) "Patrick Caulfield AP".
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