Patrick Caulfield - After Lunch (1975)

In this piece Patrick Caulfield has depicted a restaurant using a construction of lines, several shades of blue and a photograph of a landscape which has been used to represent the view from the restaurant. Caulfield has chosen a restaurant as it is a familiar surrounding that the viewer can relate to instantaneously. It is clear the audiences involvement in the piece was something Caulfield held great importance in. This is shown not just in the everyday environment but with the scale. It alludes the viewer into feeling as though they are a part of the scene in front of them.
Caulfield used a lot of elements to build up this piece for example he included the chair in the foreground (one that would be rare to find in a restaurant) as you can see through it therefore it does not dominate the foreground and creates a feeling of intricacy and complication in the design of the piece.
What I liked about this piece was Caulfield’s combination of figuration, line and the juxtaposition of the real photo image next to the cartoon like scene. I feel the photograph works well however I chose to leave out the combination of real life photography and cartoon like imagery as I felt it had been done before and I also hadn’t got the hang of photoshop fully at the the time I made these pieces. However over Christmas I would like to experiment more with this idea.