Screenprint on paper
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Some Poems of Jules Laforgue
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1 Ah This life is so everyday
Purchased 1976
animals: birds
architecture
bird - non-specific
curtain
emotions, concepts and ideas
features
formal qualities
furnishings
Laforgue, Jules
landscape
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
objects
silhouette
sky
window
<p>This set of 22 screenprints came about after Caulfield was invited in the late 1960s to make a limited edition book. Caulfield's chosen subject was the poetry of Jules Laforgue which he first encountered and admired as a student. Laforgue was born in Montevideo in 1860, but in 1876 moved to Paris where he died in 1887. Laforgue's poetry, blending oblique observations and associations, was an important influence on such later poets as T.S. Eliot. Of the prints, Caulfield observed: '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...'</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper print screenprint
1. ‘Ah! This life is so everyday’
image: 410 × 359 mm
Purchased 1976
<p>This set of 22 <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/screenprint" title="Glossary definition for 'Screenprint'"><span>screenprints</span></a> came about after  Caulfield was invited in the late 1960s to make a  limited <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>edition</span></a> book. Caulfield's chosen subject  was the poetry of Jules Laforgue which he first  encountered and admired as a student. Laforgue  was born in Montevideo in 1860, but in 1876 moved  to Paris where he died in 1887. Laforgue's  poetry, blending oblique observations and  associations, was an important influence on such  later poets as T.S. Eliot. Of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a>,  Caulfield observed: '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...'</p>
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animals: birds architecture bird - non-specific curtain emotions, concepts and ideas features formal qualities furnishings Laforgue, Jules landscape literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) objects silhouette sky window