Description:
red background, black jacket end, white shirt end and hand with finger pointing directly at viewer
Label Text:
Excerpt from wall label, for the exhibition “The Unexpected Encounters of Looking Again,” November 28 - March 15, 2007:
During the 1960s, Lichtenstein challenged the existing art movement of Abstract Expressionism by depicting trivial subject matter in a commercial media format which eliminated any trace of painterly brushwork. Placed within the Pop Art movement, Lichtenstein’s work is often rendered in a large, billboard style format that includes cartoon balloons of text. Although the work included in the exhibition is small in scale and does not include text, it is as powerful as the large-scale works in its intensity of color and clarity of form.
Lichtenstein’s piece is part of The New York Collection for Stockholm which presents a slice of the 1960’s New York scene through prints by many of the foremost artists of the twentieth century. The portfolio was assembled in 1973 by Experiments in Art and Technology, executed at Styria Studios in NY and contains work donated by the artists. - Rebecca Karp (M.A. '08)
Subjects:
screen prints Link to share this object record:
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