1964, Roy Lichtenstein, Gullscape -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label:
"There is something humorous about doing a landscape in a solidified way, especially the rays, because a sunset has little or no specific form." -Roy Lichtenstein
An originator of pop art, Lichtenstein borrowed images from American popular culture, especially comic strips, advertising, and art reproductions. His signature vocabulary of black outlines, primary colors, and benday dots derived from commercial printing emphasizes his subjects' everyday origins. In this painting, Lichtenstein reinterprets and monumentalizes the kind of conventional and familiar image usually found on picture postcards, raising questions about what distinguishes art from illustration or advertising.
1964, Roy Lichtenstein, Gullscape -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label:
"There is something humorous about doing a landscape in a solidified way, especially the rays, because a sunset has little or no specific form." -Roy Lichtenstein
An originator of pop art, Lichtenstein borrowed images from American popular culture, especially comic strips, advertising, and art reproductions. His signature vocabulary of black outlines, primary colors, and benday dots derived from commercial printing emphasizes his subjects' everyday origins. In this painting, Lichtenstein reinterprets and monumentalizes the kind of conventional and familiar image usually found on picture postcards, raising questions about what distinguishes art from illustration or advertising.