Roy+Lichtenstein

__Whaam by Roy Lichtenstein__ First Impression: This piece is called Whaam and was made in 1963. My first impression of this piece is that it reminds me of a comic book strip, and I wonder if this is from a real comic strip. This piece is mainly done in black, white, red and yellow, and light blue, as in many of Lichtenstein's other pieces. It looks very much like pop art, and is probably from a very popular comic of that time. It shows a plane exploding in traditional comic book format with panels and word bubbles.
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Second Impression: This piece is based off of a 1962 comic called All American Men of War published by DC. After further research about Lichtenstein's influences, I learned that he lived in New York, a cultural central. Lichtenstein drew inspiration from commercial advertisements and often redrew popular romance comics, adding dots and thicker black lines while keeping word bubbles and the typical comic book style. He also gave his pieces a specific color scheme of red, yellow, blue, black and white, visible in this piece as well as his trademarked black outlines. This pop art piece is based off of a comic strip as well as the pop art culture of New York City, where Lichtenstein lived. This piece is also one of Lichtenstein's most famous pieces as well as a monumental piece in the pop art movement. Roy Lichtenstein was one of the pivotal artists in pop art, as well as Andy Warhol. Lichtenstein used jagged repeated diagonal lines and explosion shapes to simulate war and gunfire, as well as enlarging the letters to give the onlooker the feeling of actually hearing the sounds. This painting also has a symmetrical composition, with the line of fire attaching the two panels. This painting was done during a time of war, so Lichtenstein added these elements to simulate the experiences many men were enduring at the time. Source: https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Roy-Lichtenstein/275466 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lichtenstein-whaam-t00897

__Sunrise by Roy Lichtenstein__ First impression: This is a sun rise and it was made in 1965, it looks like somewhere in Japan were there is a sunrise. He mostly used yellow, red, white, and black. Unlike Roy Lichtenstein's other art pieces this does not look like it was in a comic I think it was separate. The way that he put the clouds makes it look like is somewhere in Japan or Asia

Second Impression: After a little bit of research I realized that this was one of the first paintings he did after his comic editing phase and one of his very first landscape pictures, which inspired him to do more landscape pictures. When he ran out of ideas he turned to landscapes which were inspired by this picture so it is very significant. This painting also includes Ben-Day dots, another staple of Lichtenstein's pop art. Ben-Day dots are small dots used to color and shade romance novels cheaply. Lichtenstein enlarged these dots in many of his famous paintings, and Ben-Day dots remain present in almost all pop art paintings today. Lichtenstein used his specific color scheme, Ben-Day dots, and thick black lines to exaggerate the unique qualities present in the pictures already to give the public a new perspective by forcing them to see a commercial image in a new way. SOURCE: http://www.roylichtenstein.com/sunrise.jsp Photo Source: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/Lichtenstein/themes/Landscapes __Spray by Roy Lichtenstein__ First Impression: At first I thought that this piece is very well put together. It is a balanced mix of realism and abstract styles. It seems very reflective of retro styles. I wonder if this piece was created in the 1960's when hairspray and beehives were popular, or if Lichtenstein was using a more retro style. Overall, it seems very well put together following the comic strip style evident in many of Lichtenstein's pieces as well as made with the colors red, yellow, black and white and the black outlines typical of Lichtenstein's past pieces. Second Impression: After research I found that Lichtenstein drew his inspiration from New York and commercial icons and culture, as well as styles from the glass and chrome 1930's era, as reflected in this paining. It is a pop art piece done with thick black line typical of his comic book-esque style as well as painted in red, yellow, black and white, a similar color scheme to past pop art pieces he has done and to pop art in general. To me, this painting also has a very New York style with it's bold lines and bright colors. This painting also resembles the romance comic strips he often based his work off of. This painting was another overly reproduced image most likely found n billboards or in cartoons By taking this image out of context and redoing it in a new perspective, he was able to push creative boundaries and become a forerunner in the pop art movement Source: https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Roy-Lichtenstein/275466 Photo Source: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/roy-lichtenstein-spray-1 __Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein__ First Impression: At first I thought that this piece of art was very interesting because the girl is drowning. She is thinking "I don't care! Id rather sink than call Brad for help." There is a lot of blue in this image and he doesn't really use any other colors except for tan. This was probably from a comic and it shows how overly dramatic people can be at times. Most of the girls that he draws have blond hair, I wonder why he decided to give this girl blue hair?

Second impression: After I researched this piece a little bit more I realized that he actually took this art from another comic, called Run for Love and slightly changed the comic by changing the word bubble. Originally there was a man in the picture, his name was Mal and he was clinging to a boat in the background of the comic. It turns out that he did this with a lot of pictures he drew. Roy edited the original comic because he thought that is could represent how melodramatic and sensitive society was at the time. In the romance comics Lichtenstein drew inspiration from, there were two types of women, he housewife and the girl in distress. By taking these pictures out of context and enlarging them, Lichtenstein questioned the stereotypes that defined much of New York's culture. He exaggerated the present elements to remind us that many of our experiences are secondhand, commercialized, or reproduced. https://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Roy-Lichtenstein/275466

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__Roy Lichtenstein__ Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27th, 1923 in New York City. He earned a master of fine arts degree from the University of Ohio, where he taught from 1946 to 1951, as well as at New York State University College, in Oswego, and at Douglass College of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He began his career in 1951 by painting pictures of cowboys and Indians in modern art styles.His comic book style manifested in 1960 when he painted a picture of Mickey Mouse for his children. His technique developed as he enlarged commercial figures and added Ben-Day dots, a very important part of pop art today. He often drew romance comic characters with enlarged text bubbles, drawing inspiration from the culture of New York City and using the reproduction of already very popular and commercialized images to question stereotypes and show the public a new perspective by taking these reproduced images out of context, cropping them, and altering them by enlarging certain elements to accent their unique qualities which altering the color schemes and using thick black lines as well as Ben-Day dots, creating his own unique style. Roy Lichtenstein was a pivotal man in the pop art movement, alongside Andy Warhol. He died on September 29th,1997.

__Final Evaluation__ One thing that would be very important for people to know about Roy Lichtenstein is that he did not just make cheap copies of overly commercialized images. He used these images because they were so well known to give his audience a new perspective and to question stereotypes by cropping these images and taking the out of context At first glance, people in the future would most likely think that Lichtenstein's pictures were cheap and copied like we did at first, but if they were to do more research as we did, they would likely find his pictures deep and meaningful.
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__Sources__ [Special issue]. (n.d.). //Scholastic Art//.

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