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Sep 1, 2020 · Whaam! (1963) is a two-canvas painting based on an image from the comic book strip All-American Men of War, published by DC Comics in February 1962. The left canvas depicts an American fighter plane firing a missile that hits an approaching enemy plane seen on the right canvas.
Feb 10, 2024 · Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein is an iconic piece of pop art that captivates viewers with its bold, graphic style and its intriguing subject matter. Painted in 1963, this monumental work depicts a high-impact aerial battle, with an American fighter jet shooting down an enemy plane while emitting the sound effect "whaam!" in a burst of bright colors.
Roy Lichtenstein's serious comic-inspired canvas Whaam! disrupted the art world in the mid-1960s, delivering an enigmatic salvo at both the conventions of artistic expression and the post-war representation of conflict. By reworking a comic book image of an American jet destroying an enemy plane, Lichtenstein blows up audience expectations.
The stuff of war flashbacks and conflict news coverage. But by Lichtenstein, we are drawn into the work and its detachment from reality, by the aesthetic suggestion of childhood and by the absurdity of an oversized comic strip hanging in the art gallery. First exhibited in New York in 1963, Whaam!
Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein. Whaam! is based on an image from 'All American Men of War' published by DC comics in 1962. Throughout the 1960s, Lichtenstein frequently drew on commercial art sources such as comic images or advertisements, attracted by the way highly emotional subject matter could be depicted using detached techniques.
“Whaam!,” 1963 (RLCR 808), Acrylic, oil, graphite pencil on canvas (two joined panels), Overall: 68 1/8 x 159 13/16 in. (173 x 405.9 cm)Both panels: 68 1/16 x 79 15/16 in. (172.9 x 203 cm) (approx.) (From “Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné” by Andrea Theil.)
May 9, 2012 · Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam! is an eerie modern version of the battle paintings that once decorated European palaces and council chambers. It is on a grand scale, split across two panels that...
