室内的图画

Caulfield explores different styles of representation, subverting our expectations about what is real and what is illusory. The scene features a picture-within-a-picture, a device common in his work. The carefully copied source of the still life is Meal by Candlelight , by the seventeenth-century German artist Gottfried von Wedig. Candles often appeared in vanitas paintings , symbolising the brevity of human existence. Because of the abstracted style used for the setting, the painting appears more ‘real’ than the space in which it hangs.

Gallery label, September 2004

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