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BMW_Lichtenstein-2
BMW Art Car photo by Lydia Marcus
Photographed February 24, 2009 at Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA)
As seen on my blog: fotonomous.blogspot.com/2009/02/bmw-art-cars-lacma.html
Like the Stella, Roy Lichtenstein's automobile (BMW 320i) incorporates an artistic vocabulary familiar to him (including Benday dots and flat areas of color), but also adapts to the unusualness of the assignment. He said, "I pondered on it for a long time and put as much into it as I possibly could....I wanted the lines I painted to be a depiction, the road showing the car where to go." Again the modulated strip of color indicates movement and wind traveling from front to back of the car. However, Lichtenstein goes further conceptually: "the design also shows the countryside through which the car has traveled....One could cal it an enumeration of eveyrthing a car experiences - only that this car reflects all of these things before they actually have been on the road." On one side a rising sun, and over the rest a depiction of the natural and physical forces that car encounters on its daily journeys. - Christopher Mount, Design Historian and Curator (From the LACMA catalogue BMW ART CARS February 12-24, 2009)
BMW_Lichtenstein-2
BMW Art Car photo by Lydia Marcus
Photographed February 24, 2009 at Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA)
As seen on my blog: fotonomous.blogspot.com/2009/02/bmw-art-cars-lacma.html
Like the Stella, Roy Lichtenstein's automobile (BMW 320i) incorporates an artistic vocabulary familiar to him (including Benday dots and flat areas of color), but also adapts to the unusualness of the assignment. He said, "I pondered on it for a long time and put as much into it as I possibly could....I wanted the lines I painted to be a depiction, the road showing the car where to go." Again the modulated strip of color indicates movement and wind traveling from front to back of the car. However, Lichtenstein goes further conceptually: "the design also shows the countryside through which the car has traveled....One could cal it an enumeration of eveyrthing a car experiences - only that this car reflects all of these things before they actually have been on the road." On one side a rising sun, and over the rest a depiction of the natural and physical forces that car encounters on its daily journeys. - Christopher Mount, Design Historian and Curator (From the LACMA catalogue BMW ART CARS February 12-24, 2009)