Paul Dufficey The Art of Collage

This is the first ever book about Paul Dufficeys art. It includes his collages oil paintings book illustrations new digital paintings and his landmark work in the cinema and the opera house. Paul Dufficey was first discovered by Derek Jarman in 1971 who saw two of Dufficeys paintings in the Young Contemporaries exhibition in London and hired him to create drawings paintings and sculpture for Savage Messiah Ken Russells film about Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. As a result Dufficey designed all the sets props and graphics for Ken Russells Pop Art masterpiece Tommy (1975). He also designed Russells film Aria and the opera Il Mefistofele which caused a riot in Genoa. Dufficeys work on the grand scale includes the great Brueghel Ceiling at Kentwell Hall in Suffolk where he also painted the spectacular Shakespearean frieze on the spirit of England. On the smaller scale though equally hypnotic is his one-inch painting of a cross-eyed cat.