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Sep 3, 2012 · It was the first major retrospective to broadly examine his art since his death. Lichtenstein is a figure of monumental importance in the recent history of art. His contribution—the still-potent collision of commercial sources and fine art—defined the enduring legacy of Pop Art. The idea of compositional unity was central to the artist’s ...
Jun 28, 2012 · By Ted Loos. June 28, 2012. SOME time in the mid 1970s Dorothy Lichtenstein stopped by her husband’s studio on the Bowery one day after lunch, expecting to find him at work on a new painting ...
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Roy Lichtenstein is one of the foremost pop artists.His work broke with the canons of abstract expressionism in the sixties, by mimicking the techniques of printed material as well as appropriating imagery from comic strip advertisements and other mass printed sources, and we are now looking at his work back in time to reassess his enduring legacy.
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective features exciting new scholarship by an international team of distinguished curators, critics, and art historians. Essays by Yve-Alain Bois, Chrissie Iles, and Stephen Little, among others, give special consideration to Lichtenstein’s historical influences, from Picasso and Cubism through Surrealism, Futurism ...
Oct 12, 2012 · October 12, 2012 at 10:42 a.m. EDT. Roy Lichtenstein. The painter's name is linked with his signature comic-book images of women, their thoughts rising in text bubbles above tentacles of tousled ...
Oct 18, 2012 · Most important, Lichtenstein’s large-featured images, with their Ben-Day dot patterns; thick, black contours; and flat, bright colors are almost ergonomically comfortable to the eye.
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Sep 5, 2012 · Washington, DC—Pop art was defined, refined, and ultimately blown wide open by American artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997). In the first major exhibition since his death, "Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective" will include more than 100 of the artist's greatest paintings from all periods of his career, along with a selection of related drawings and sculptures.
