Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein
Thanks to Mario for pointing this one out
For the last 25 years David Barsalou has examined over 30,000 comic books (a kind of obsession) to find the cartoon images Lichtenstein used in his work.
The Lichtenstein Project compares over 60 of Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings.
Though in art/history books I always read that Lichtenstein best-known artworks are relatively close, but not exact, copies of comic-book panels (a subject he largely abandoned in 1965) after Barsalou’s deconstruction I find quite amazing the level of similarities!!!
by Mario Sughi
October 26th, 2007 11:51
Reckon Roy would have loved Photoshop:)
October 26th, 2007 12:22
To be honest I don’t have to much problems with Roy Lichtenstein, though I can’t really understand what kind of excitment he could have gone through by doing that. My difficulty is more with our times, our society, ourselves, which have accepted and loved Roy Lichtenstein as one of the greatest artists of modern times!