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Sep 3, 2012 · This exhibition on the art of Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997) included nearly 170 works made between 1950 and 1997, focusing on the artist’s achievements in painting, sculpture, and drawing. It was the first major retrospective to broadly examine his art since his death.
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, and British Pop. Contributions by James Rondeau and Sheena Wagstaff evaluate the artist’s abstract work and late nudes.
Oct 18, 2012 · “Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective,” a traveling exhibition now at the National Gallery of Art here, is the first major survey of his work since his death, at 73, in 1997.
Gillian Pistell examines Roy Lichtenstein’s aesthetic developments in the years 1961 to 1965. This breakthrough period in the artist’s career saw his first utilization of the Benday dot technique and marked a turning point in his choice of subject matter. Head: Yellow and Black.
Roy Lichtenstein is best known for his dotted, angst-filled comics featuring beautiful ladies in distress. But a major retrospective at the National Gallery shows that the painter found ...
Jun 28, 2012 · 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. But instead of...
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Sep 3, 2012 · Riding home from the preview on Amtrak, I read Richard Kalina’s “Harmony and Discord” essay on the Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective in the May issue of Art in America. Kalina argues for the underlying abstraction in Roy Lichtenstein’s artwork and I think Kalina and I are arguing two sides of the same coin.
