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Roger Gardner\u2019s response to the Patrick Caulfield print : \u201cPicnic Set\u201d (1978)<\/strong> Some years ago, interested in Caulfield\u2019s work, I made a painting of 60s wallpaper.\u2013 a comment on some paintings being merely wallpaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Look Again - Picnic Set - Leeds Fine Artists","description":"Some years ago, interested in Caulfield\u2019s work, I made a painting of 60s wallpaper.\u2013 a comment on some paintings being merely wallpaper."},"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-roger-gardner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedsfineartists.co.uk\/yorkshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Some years ago, interested in Caulfield\u2019s work, I made a painting of 60s wallpaper.\u2013
a comment on some paintings being merely wallpaper.
With \u201cPicnic Set\u201d: Caulfield\u2019s fruit bowl was altered to be similar to an image on the kitchen wallpaper.
The central stack of plates becomes a single vertical plate (with echoes of Lichtenstein and Cubism.)
5 wine bottles become 3 life-size ones.
The background is a modified grapevine.
Caulfield\u2019s beam of sunlight becomes an arm \u2013 echoing the ancient Egyptian sunbeam symbol and a Jasper Johns \u2018quote\u2019.
The scroll is from Masaccio\u2019s \u201cThe Virgin and Child with Angels\u201d (National Gallery.) As Masaccio had not signed his name on the scroll (the usual place) my painting cannot be said to be wholly mine \u2013 the scroll remains blank, (though I have \u201crelented\u201d and signed below the fruit bowl.)
The spotted glasses arrangement somehow echoes the format of the bottles and the scroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"