Roy Lichtenstein Modern Room

Modern room by roy lichtenstein roy lichtenstein takes a modernist perspective of the picture plane by utilizing a method of commercial design through comic strips and advertisement.

Roy lichtenstein modern room.

Referring to lichtenstein s equalizing treatment of the subjects he. See available prints and multiples paintings and sculpture for sale and learn. The sculpture is part of a series lichtenstein began in the late 1960 s that explored the idea of creating images of human figures that look like machines. A key figure in the pop art movement and beyond roy lichtenstein grounded his profoundly inventive career in imitation beginning by borrowing images from comic books and advertisements in the early 1960s and eventually encompassing those of everyday objects artistic styles and art history itself.

Available for sale from taglialatella galleries roy lichtenstein modern room interiors 1990 lithograph woodcut and screenprint on paper 56 1 8. October 27 1923 september 29 1997 was an american pop artist during the 1960s along with andy warhol jasper johns and james rosenquist among others he became a leading figure in the new art movement. The interiors the series represents a culmination of the artist s highly distinctive method of appropriating images from popular media in order to contemplate and critique contemporary culture. From leslie sacks gallery roy lichtenstein modern room 1990 lithograph woodcut and screenprint 56 1 8 80 11 16 in.

The smithsonian american art museum acquired the monumental sculpture modern head by roy lichtenstein a major figure in the pop art movement in 2008. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody. Modern room study forms an important part of one of roy lichtenstein s most significant bodies of work. Roy fox lichtenstein ˈ l ɪ k t ən ˌ s t aɪ n.

Modern head stands thirty one feet tall and is made of stainless steel painted blue. Lichtenstein integrates the readymade quality of screen prints and integrates a painterly gesture with the use of thick lines flat surface planes and obscured. View roy lichtenstein s 13 189 artworks on artnet. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices.