The painting Hopeless communicates to the viewer and in this way Lichtenstein was able to communicate his message to the painting viewers. However, Roy made some modifications to the original painting by applying bright and vibrant colors together with wavy and bold lines which intensify the emotions in the painting scene. The woman fills the majority of the canvas. Hopeless painting depicts a vulnerable teary- eyed young woman who seams stressed up. Lichtenstein conveys the essence of the time, depicting recognisable ‘types’, such as the beautiful blonde woman and handsome, square-jawed man seen in this painting. The original illustration included a thought bubble which read, ‘I vowed to myself I would not miss my appointment – That I would not go riding with him – Yet before I knew it…’ His paintings present archetypal images of contemporary America, simultaneously glamorous, mundane, dramatic and impersonal. This work is based on an image from the comic Girls’ Romances. He would paint his works on a monumental scale, much enlarged from his original source material of comic-strip illustrations.
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This painting is one of a series from the early 1960s in which Lichtenstein deals with the theme of romance.
The text, “ LOOK MICKEY, I’VE HOOKED A BIG ONE,” mockingly hangs over Donald’s unsuspecting head. Behind him stands Mickey, stifling a giggle at his friend’s mistake. Staring at the water, fishing pole raised above his head, Donald thinks he has caught a fish when he has actually snagged his own coattail. In the image, Disney icons Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse stand on a pier. Look Mickey represents the first time Roy Lichtenstein directly transposed a scene and a style from a source of popular culture, the 1960 children’s book Donald Duck: Lost and Found. She seems almost trapped, similar to the state of many women in America during the 1960’s, as women were fighting for equality. She has a sense of stress in both her gaze and physical stance. Lichtenstein sheds light on how there was still a lack of female dominance at this time. Immediately, the viewer’s focus lays upon the emotions of the subject, as it takes over the painting. Here, he studies the gendered aspects of the female identity. Lichtenstein’s “Crying Girl” goes beyond his desire to create comic-like artworks. The narrative text in the illustration presents a melodramatic love story: the girl is drowning because of a leg cramp, but she is so grief-stricken that she decides to drown instead of calling out to her boyfriend for help. Lichtenstein significantly altered the original illustration, which shows the girl drowning in the foreground with her boyfriend in the background clinging to an overturned boat. It was based on the cover of the 1962 comic book Run for Love by DC Comics. Drowning Girl (1963)ĭrowning Girl (1963) is one of the most famous paintings of American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. This made Brad the perfect protagonist for Pop Art, a genre which aimed to create art that was not snobbishly ‘high brow’ but which created links with popular culture, and which was thus designed for popular consumption. When questioned about the figure of Brad in his art, Lichtenstein stated that he liked the name because it sounded both cliched and heroic. Brad features in several of Lichtenstein’s paintings, with Drowning Girl being a prime example. Masterpiece (1962)Īs the speech bubble indicates, the man’s name is Brad. Niood lists the 10 Most Famous Artworks of Roy Lichtenstein: 1. Lichtenstein’s success was matched by his focus and energy, and after his initial triumph in the early 1960s, he went on to create an oeuvre of more than 5,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, murals and other objects celebrated for their wit and invention. These paintings reinvigorated the American art scene and altered the history of modern art.
He is preeminently identified with Pop Art, a movement he helped originate, and his first fully achieved paintings were based on imagery from comic strips and advertisements and rendered in a style mimicking the crude printing processes of newspaper reproduction. Roy Lichtenstein was one of the most influential and innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century. You can also read this article in French or in Spanish.
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