The yellow line looks like it has been scrawled energetically to form a "W." Brushstrokes would normally tell us a lot about an artist and their work. This one appears powerful, so thickly applied that it would cast a shadow... But would it? In fact, this is a "brushstroke" only in appearance, and the image itself is completely flat. The background is filled with halftone dots used in commercial printing. The brushstroke, which would normally provide a vital clue to the artist’s state of mind, is here transformed into something resembling a print advertisement or mass-produced publication. In this way, the work chips away at the boundary between "art" and "subculture," between "high-culture" and "low-culture." It is clear that Roy Lichtenstein, who was known for paintings based on comic-strip illustrations, was also deeply interested in the history of art.
(SAKAMOTO Kyoko)
The yellow line looks like it has been scrawled energetically to form a "W." Brushstrokes would normally tell us a lot about an artist and their work. This one appears powerful, so thickly applied that it would cast a shadow... But would it? In fact, this is a "brushstroke" only in appearance, and the image itself is completely flat. The background is filled with halftone dots used in commercial printing. The brushstroke, which would normally provide a vital clue to the artist’s state of mind, is here transformed into something resembling a print advertisement or mass-produced publication. In this way, the work chips away at the boundary between "art" and "subculture," between "high-culture" and "low-culture." It is clear that Roy Lichtenstein, who was known for paintings based on comic-strip illustrations, was also deeply interested in the history of art.
(SAKAMOTO Kyoko)