1969, Roy Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral, Set 5 -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From the museum label: In 1966 Lichtenstein began a series of paintings inspired by modern European art. This triptych is a response to the paintings of Rouen Cathedral made by French Impressionist Claude Monet in the 1890s. Lichtenstein cleverly translated Monet's depictions into systematic arrays of dots in binary colors. Recalling the benday printing technique employed to reproduce images in comics, magazines, and newspapers, the dots give Lichtenstein's canvases a factory-made quality. This aesthetic intrigued the Pop artist, who referred to his Cathedral paintings as "manufactured Monets."
1969, Roy Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral, Set 5 -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
From the museum label: In 1966 Lichtenstein began a series of paintings inspired by modern European art. This triptych is a response to the paintings of Rouen Cathedral made by French Impressionist Claude Monet in the 1890s. Lichtenstein cleverly translated Monet's depictions into systematic arrays of dots in binary colors. Recalling the benday printing technique employed to reproduce images in comics, magazines, and newspapers, the dots give Lichtenstein's canvases a factory-made quality. This aesthetic intrigued the Pop artist, who referred to his Cathedral paintings as "manufactured Monets."