The Roy Lichtenstein exhibition in the TATE gallery was about
the pop art movement and “reacting against the dominant American abstract
expressionist style of painting”. There were many of Lichtenstein’s pieces in
the exhibition such as, In the Car 1963, Whaam! and Modern Art ll 1996. Over
time, Lichtenstein’s works become more and more abstracted and different than
his previous pieces as they become his own and not recreations of other peoples’
comics and imagery. From seeing the pieces up close, I noticed that they are a
much bigger scale than you would expect, also that on a computer screen you see
the colours but not necessarily the detail in which each piece is constructed. However,
from seeing then up close, you can clearly see the detail and how large the
images are, some even have pencil mark from where it has been originally
sketched.
I selected both the pieces, In the Car and Modern Art ll as
my favourites. From ‘In the Car’ I observed how much detail had been added to
the large piece, the Ben Day dots can clearly be seen which shows his talent
clearly, which isn’t something you can observe through a screen. From ‘Modern
Art ll’ I observed how his works evolved over time and how all the elements of
his older work were still incorporated, however, it was more specifically his
own work inspired by Pablo Picasso’s cubism, still including his style with Ben
Day dots and comic styled focuses e.g. features.
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