Roy Lichtenstein
I Love Liberty, 1982
When American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein painted Look Mickey in 1961, it set the tone for his career. This primary-color portrait of the cartoon mouse introduced Lichtenstein’s detached and deadpan style at a time when introspective Abstract Expressionism reigned. Mining material from advertisements, comics, and the everyday, Lichtenstein brought what was then a great taboo—commercial art—into the gallery. He stressed the artificiality of his images by painting them as though they’d come from a commercial press, with the flat, single-color Ben-Day dots of the newspaper meticulously rendered by hand using paint and stencils. Later in his career, Lichtenstein extended his source material to art history, including the work of Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso, and experimented with three-dimensional works. Lichtenstein’s use of appropriated imagery has influenced artists such as Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, and Raymond Pettibon.
When American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein painted Look Mickey in 1961, it set the tone for his career. This primary-color portrait of the cartoon mouse introduced Lichtenstein’s detached and deadpan style at a time when introspective Abstract Expressionism reigned. Mining material from advertisements, comics, and the everyday, Lichtenstein brought what was then a great taboo—commercial art—into the gallery. He stressed the artificiality of his images by painting them as though they’d come from a commercial press, with the flat, single-color Ben-Day dots of the newspaper meticulously rendered by hand using paint and stencils. Later in his career, Lichtenstein extended his source material to art history, including the work of Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso, and experimented with three-dimensional works. Lichtenstein’s use of appropriated imagery has influenced artists such as Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, and Raymond Pettibon.
Roy Lichtenstein
I Love Liberty, 1982
Series by this artist
- Brushstrokes26 available
- Crying Girl16 available
- Impressionism13 available
- Cow Going Abstract Art6 available
- Expressionist Woodcuts5 available
- As I Opened Fire15 available
- Mirrors12 available
- The Surrealist Series10 available
- Sunrises9 available
- Sweet Dreams Baby6 available
- Music6 available
- Crak!5 available
- Spray Cans5 available
- Water Lilies4 available
- Moonscapes4 available
- Whaam!3 available
- Reverie2 available
- Mickey Mouse2 available
- Sandwich and Soda2 available
- This Must Be the Place2 available
- Pyramids2 available
- Drowning Girl1 available
- Chinese Landscapes1 available