Roy Lichtenstein Modern Room

Available for sale from taglialatella galleries roy lichtenstein modern room interiors 1990 lithograph woodcut and screenprint on paper 56 1 8.

Roy lichtenstein modern room. Roy fox lichtenstein ˈ l ɪ k t ən ˌ s t aɪ n. Modern room study forms an important part of one of roy lichtenstein s most significant bodies of work. Inspired by the comic strip lichtenstein produced precise compositions. Modern room study while serving as an artist in residence at the american academy in rome in 1989 roy lichtenstein came across a billboard furniture advertisement that would inspire collage for modern room meant to capture the barren feeling of homes featured in commercial pop culture the collage captures an idealized conception of bourgeois uniformity.

Lichtenstein integrates the readymade quality of screen prints and integrates a painterly gesture with the use of thick lines flat surface planes and obscured. Modern room by roy lichtenstein roy lichtenstein takes a modernist perspective of the picture plane by utilizing a method of commercial design through comic strips and advertisement. See available prints and multiples paintings and sculpture for sale and learn. October 27 1923 september 29 1997 was an american pop artist during the 1960s along with andy warhol jasper johns and james rosenquist among others he became a leading figure in the new art movement.

View roy lichtenstein s 13 189 artworks on artnet. Referring to lichtenstein s equalizing treatment of the subjects he. Roy lichtenstein was an american artist known for his paintings and prints which referenced commercial art and popular culture icons like mickey mouse. The sculpture is part of a series lichtenstein began in the late 1960 s that explored the idea of creating images of human figures that look like machines.

A key figure in the pop art movement and beyond roy lichtenstein grounded his profoundly inventive career in imitation beginning by borrowing images from comic books and advertisements in the early 1960s and eventually encompassing those of everyday objects artistic styles and art history itself. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody. The interiors the series represents a culmination of the artist s highly distinctive method of appropriating images from popular media in order to contemplate and critique contemporary culture. Modern head stands thirty one feet tall and is made of stainless steel painted blue.