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Roy Lichtenstein American (1923-1997) Drowning Girl, 1963. Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas 171.6 x169.5 cm (67 5/8 x 66 3/4 in.) The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960's, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody. Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein produced precise ...
Sep 29, 1997 · Drowning Girl. In the early 1960s, Lichtenstein gained renown as a leading Pop artist for paintings sourced from comic books, specifically DC Comics. Although artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns had previously integrated popular imagery into their works, no one hitherto had focused on cartoon imagery as exclusively as Lichtenstein.
Roy Lichtenstein’s drowning, crying and anxious ‘girls’ were depicted as idealised blonde bombshells that spoke to contemporary beauty standards and parodied her social expectations. By singling out the troubled woman in a comic strip, Lichtenstein immortalised her pain and poked fun at the modern image of the ‘perfect’ woman who was ...
Many of Roy Lichtenstein’s early paintings appropriated imagery found in comic books. Drowning Girl samples a page from issue #83 of Secret Hearts, a romance comic book illustrated by Tony Abruzzo and published by DC Comics in 1962. In Abruzzo’s original illustration, the drowning girl’s boyfriend appears in the background, clinging to a capsized boat. Meanwhile, the drowning girl in the ...
"Drowning Girl" by Roy Lichtenstein, MOMA First Edition Billboard Poster Free Domestic Shipping, 1989. David Lawrence Gallery. US$4,900. Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was a pop artist, who was born on October 27th, 1923, in New York City. He is famous for his pop art paintings and sculptures. “Drowning Girl”, one of Roy’s most famous works, is a painting of a young girl in an orange dress. It looks like it could be an image from comic books or a magazine ad.
