Roy Lichtenstein e as suas 10 most important works

Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was two great names for pop art. Fazia part of Lichtenstein's aesthetic project a elevation of the common-place, or gesture of throw light on or initially not considered.

The North American plastic artist made many of his canvases from him to pontilhista technique, or I wish that the works seemed to be mechanically reproduced. You Ben Day pontos, as they were chamados, they were frequently used in mass printing processes. Outra particular characteristic of the painter was imitate in detail the appearance of commercially reproduced images.

The artistic production of Roy Lichtenstein is recognized by referring to people from the mass culture and by a similar style to or found in the histories of the masses.

Find out now the most consecrated works of one of the two greatest pop art exhibitors!

1. Whaam!

Raised in 1963, to work Whaam! It is a fine canvas with acrylic ink and oil based on an image published in the previous year in a magazine in quadrinhos All American Men of War

, gives DC Comics. Lichtenstein was celebrated for using fairly commercial images as they present us with pictures and announcements that, via regra, reach or large public.

This particular peça - Whaam! - ficou known as two pop art icons.

Discover below an image that served as an influence for the work of the North American painter:

Lichtenstein was interested in content that were related to love or war, but most of all were portrayed in a more cold and impessoal way. This is the case of Whaam!, which is about a military action.

In the schematic part of the work we see a military plane firing a blank and, in the direct part, we see or even be hit by exploding them. O nome do work is in homage to onomatopoeia that appears in the cloth.

Uma curiosity: Whaam! it is, in a certain way, related to the life of the artist. Lichtenstein served in the US Army in World War II and had many anti-aircraft exercises. The theme of war - and especially of military aviation - was, for that reason, an expensive artist. Whaam! It belongs to a series of works that Lichtenstein dedicated to the war, as well as works produced between 1962 and 1964.

Whaam! It was exhibited for the first time in 1963, at the Leo Castello Gallery (Nova Iorque). Since 1966 the work belongs to the collection of Tate Modern (London).

2. Drowning girl

Or oil on canvas Drowning girl It was painted in 1963 on the face of using the classic conventions of the universe of two quadrinhos (such as, for example, or use of a thought bolha that translated or that is not imaginary of the protagonist).

Drowning girl I was inspired by Run for love, a story published in four pages by DC Comics in the year 1962 in the magazine Secret love edição 83.

Na real history, or name of the young man, appears suffocating to or founded, to imagem, not therefore, it was edited by Lichtenstein in order to turn off or become in love, thus giving prominence to a woman in sauce. Check below the cover of the magazine that served as inspiration to the work:

Conheated seu grau hair of inlaid melodrama, Drowning girl You give pioneering fabrics from Lichtenstein. Later, he was a painter to invest in new works representing women in tragic situations.

A fabric that is most representative of the pop art movement and was made with pontylist technique. Drowning girl Since 1971 it belongs to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

3. Oh Jeff... I Love You, Too... But...

O work above, painted in 1964, was inspired by the histories in quadrinhos. Or I am not escorted to beat the cloth or text that appears in the dialogue box present in the image.

A protagonist gives work and portrayed in close e safe or phone with me, letting you see a misto of anxiety and drama.

Lichtenstein made a kind of parody of many romantic quadrinhos that were popular at the time by trazerem to tona sentimental conflicts that or large public did I know that they will be resolved at the end of the day magazine.

Oh Jeff... I Love You, Too... But ... It was very well known for being two works that bring together the central characteristics of Lichtenstein. Note, for example, I do not use the Pontilhist technique. The image was cut very close to the face of the woman, even removing part of the head, and the bolha da fala was compressed and cut directly to the side. This concentration increases the feeling of tension and denunciation or melodrama present in the situation.

4. Mickey look

Mickey look It was raised in 1961 and was referred to as a reference or children's book Pato Donald: Downcast and Lost (1960). Na imagem figure barely two characters - Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse - fishing, em um pie.

A illustration, which was withdrawn from two books of this newly-born child, carries a trace of humor because Pato Donald communicates to his friend that he pescou a great peixe quando, na verdade, or anzol ficou hooked on his own roupa. Mickey, ao will give account of the situation, laughed covering his mouth for no fazer barulho, zombando do amigo.

Lichtenstein's escort of reproducing a dinner of a children's book, or the reverse of creating an original image, was considered by many as a face to art. A critic accuses the painter of "falsifying" commercial images, many of which are original images have always been altered, many times receiving an injection of humor and irony.

Mickey look It belongs to the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art (Washington).

5. Masterpiece

Masterpiece It was conceived in 1962 and traced by two people - um homem e uma mulher. Ela olha for the cloth (that the spectator does not have access) and confirms the success of the work.

Gives a phrase dita pela bela loira and retired to a word that will give me the title of the square (Masterpiece). Brad, for the time, is a character who appears in other Lichtenstein canvases. In respect of the escort of the personagem, or painter, he once affirmed in an interview that Brad soava clichê and heroic, by isso it would be a perfect protagonist for a pop art that intended to establish a link with the culture of mass.

Masterpiece keep typical Lichtenstein traces: or use of Ben Day points, or use of vibrant cores in the presence of visual language borrowed from the universe of two quadrilaterals.

A top canvas and I attached a page to the most recently sold collection of the North-American painter. Masterpiece It was sold in January 2017 for 165 thousand dollars.

6. Popeye

Popeye It was an oil on canvas painted no verão from 1961 (as can be seen on the lower side of the canvas) and its importance is due to the fact that it was the first pop paintings created by Lichtenstein. This time, for example, to the reproduction of iconic characters like Mickey Mouse.

O personagem Popeye was "roubado" from chamada "baixa cultura" to gain the status of a work of art for the hands of a North American painter. Later, later, Lichtenstein would dedicate himself to painting or homem common, at first time or artist turned to fictional people, easily reconciled by everyone.

Na cloth acima, Popeye luta with his arch-inimigo Brutus, that flertava with his beloved Olívia Palito. Some critics read the canvas or wish the painter to revolt against abstract expressionist painters. Second to this interpretation, Brutus represents the abstractionists and Popeye was or synonymous do novo, two pop artists.

7. Two nudes

Produced in 1994, this work belongs to a set of paintings and engravings of feminine women that Lichtenstein created during the 1990s. It is interesting to note that just a maturity of the career or North American painter resolved to invest in this expensive subject for art history.

Boa part das images foram feitas com inspiração na historia Girls Romance. We quadrilaterals as characters appear dressed, Lichtenstein dismisses the protagonists who are interested, converting the images into simpler traces and using his characteristic Pontilhist technique.

8. Sandwich and Soda

Sandwich and Soda It was a print created in 1964 reproduced in a number of 500 copies.

Printed on plastic, it is the first Lichtenstein pop prints, and the first to be made on a different paper surface. A gravura acima is distinguished by the use of technical innovations and experimental materials by artist.

The way of fazer used by the painter does not work but is more linked to commercial practice than to plastic arts. Screenprinting It was a process originally created not in the beginning of the XX century to manufacture printed labels on consumer goods. On the surface of whether the artist printed his image of it on a traditional printing paper, It is about a sheet of acetate sem qualquer ligação with here that was considered material artistic.

The image chosen to be represented is directly related to everyday Western culture. The artist works with a realistic style and simplifies the details of two objects, reducing their colors to blue and white. Of easy reading, or public seen reproduced um sanduíche and um refrigerante, that gives me no title of work (Sandwich and Soda).

Since 1996, two exemplary taxa Sandwich and Soda find a permanent collection of Tate (London).

9. Brushstrokes

Lichtenstein went on to invest in the production of engravings in a more significant way during the 1960s. Brushstrokes It was a gravura bred between 1965-1966. During this period, the plastic artist investigated a series of works that represented enlarged brushstrokes. Or reason was withdrawn from the history in quadrinhos entitled The Painting, published in Strange Suspense Stories (outubro 1964):

Brushstrokes It was founded on the Pontifical technique and sought to provoke adherents of abstract expressionism. These customary artists said that with a heavy brushstroke it was a vehicle for directly communicating feelings, Lichtenstein, for the same time, proved that

"As real brushstrokes are são tão pre-determined quanto as brushstrokes two animated designs"

Or title of cloth (Brushstrokes) quer dizer, literally, brush strokes. The North American painter despises this abstractionist and ridiculous aspiration, or the fact of the group is said to be commercializing.

10. Girl with ball

Girl with ball It was painted in 1961 and it is an oil painting on canvas inspired by an advertisement for a hotel in Pocono Mountains, in Pensilvânia. A painting by Lichtenstein currently faces part of the permanent collection of MOMA (Nova Iorque).

An original image, which served as inspiration for the North American painter, was a photograph that ended to be painted, adapted for a linguagem dos quadrinhos feita with simple lines and illustrated with cores fortes:

I know everything about or movement Pop art.

Discover Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on the 27th of October 1923, in New York, a successful event broker and an enthusiastic house donor from the world of culture. Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein, along with Roy, also frequent exhibitions and concerts (the same plays piano), and wants to influence the filhos we raise for your universe.

Since Roy Lichtenstein dava sinais do seu interesse medium artistic hair: pintava, desenhava, fazia sculptures, piano player, he was a frequent assiduous of jazz shows. In 1940 or young person entering the Escola de Belas Artes da Ohio State University.

Lichtenstein served in the US Army for three years in World War II.

During the 1960s, in the United States, he joined Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and James Rosenquist and appeared as two leaders of the pop art movement. He described pop art as "non-American painting, but a true industrial one."

For 13 years Lichtenstein was a professor of art at Ohio State, New York State University, and Rutgers University.

In 1963, he abandoned his academic career to paint in full time. His pieces were very much inspired by the stories in quadrinhos and tinham with parody and irony as central characteristics.

Seu work more bem happened in terms of trade foi Masterpiece, which ended up being sold for 165 thousand dollars in January 2017.

O faleceu painter on September 29, 1997, seventy-three years.

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