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Pop under the hammer: little-seen Lichtenstein works hit Sotheby's - A group of Roy Lichtenstein’s works come to auction in ...
An avid comic book collector, he told a shocking documentary last year called 'Whaam! Bam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation ... people's songs is a serious issue, gallery bosses ...
The first full-scale retrospective of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in ... greatest known works such as Whaam! and Drowning Girl, on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
CHICAGO — Roy Lichtenstein ... art was serious. Pop art snickered at such hubris. Before this show I hadn’t given any thought to something that suddenly seems significant. “Whaam!” ...
As a new retrospective opens in London, Martin Gayford talks to his widow about life with the Pop art pioneer Roy ... They got destroyed." Whaam! 'Roy Lichtenstein', Hayward Gallery, London ...
This is the question addressed by the feature documentary WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation. Along with Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein created the Pop Art movement of the 1960s.
In the 1960s, when Roy Lichtenstein began incorporating comic strips into his paintings, he framed the gesture as a form of ironic appropriation. His use of cartoons and comics was meant to ...
"Shipboard Girl" is one of Lichtenstein's early iconic Pop Art images. He began a series of women in 1963 based on D.C. Comic's "Girls' Romances" and "Secret Hearts." For the serious Pop collector, ...
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s work is instantly recognizable: the giant, colorful canvases; the Ben-Day dots; the distinctively comic book-inspired images. That last element has caused ...
At least, that’s one takeaway from the new streaming documentary WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation. This week, national art critic Ben Davis spoke to the film’s ...