Roy Lichtenstein "Girls"
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At Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue
Media: Painting
In the summer of 1961 Lichtenstein embarked on a series of iconic images of women, taken directly from newspaper clippings and the romance comic books so prevalent in post-war America. The anonymity of the mass-produced, cheap comic book helped him to capture specific impressions of real things, while maintaining the necessary degree of aesthetic distance afforded by what he understood to be the "high restrictive quality of art." He scrutinized his female subjects, editing and re-presenting the crux of their trials and tribulations in paint on canvas on a greatly enlarged scale. The "Girl" paintings, together with the war images (or "Boy" paintings) established him as a major protagonist of the American Pop Art movement.
Schedule
From 2008-05-12 To 2008-06-28
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