Lichenstein

Not enough clues! Roy's comic-derived paintings? They are all of the above, though he sometimes made alterations to make the comic art look cruder, irritatingly. People have identified the original panels they came from - there aren't that many sources, in fact.

You probably mean some sketches made in the country Lichtenstein and not that at all.

By the way: Glad to see that you're still around.

the brushstroke paintings.

I think they are rather lovely, but they are surely (whatever else they are) responses to abstract expressionism and comments on art. They seem to me to be not exactly parodies of Pollock and his pals but certainly there is an ironising effect. However, I do think Lichtenstein's great project was trying to examine how painting worked and what imagery or iconography was effective in what compositions and so on, to strip it down to its essentials, maybe with a genuine, sincere, positive rebuilding agenda. That way, the brushstrokes can be seen as part of a structural analysis of some kind. I'm not convinced it went anywhere, however, and I think they had more to do with the transition from Modernism to Postmodernism in painting, the dismissing of past values, arguing against the almost mythic importance given to (in this case) the artist's brushstroke and action.

Does that amount to much more than shrugging and saying "dunno"?

From 'Roy Lichtenstien's Last Still Life'

: "An obliterating brushstroke, Roy called it. The idea had come to him in a dream- a brushstroke that washed over the surface of an image, defacing or effacing it. That Roy would countenance dream material for his art was unusual, and that he would announce it, even more unusual...Roy phoned Don Saff, telling him about the dream and saying that he had an idea for a project: brushstrokes that swiped over and partiallt obliterated a still life. ..it would be as if a child had come up to the print and brushed paint over sections of it. That was not Roy's way of putting it of course, and the results, however spontaneous they seemed at first sight, were hardly those of a childs mimicry of the act of painting or the act of defacement. .."

and 3,2,1...R.I.P thread

Huh?

Lickin' Stein!

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by the look of yr e-mail - so do you