ORIGINAL ROY LICHTENSTEIN VINTAGE MODERN ART MERTON MOVIE EXHIBITION POSTER 1968

Description: ROY LICHTENSTEIN (American 1923-1997) MEDIUM: SILKSCREEN SERIGRAPH MERTON OF THE MOVIES EXHIBITION POSTER. CIRCA 1968. GOOD VINTAGE CONDITION. MILD SCRATCHES AS SHOWN. DIMENSIONS: 32”H x 21”W Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997) was active/lived in New York. Roy Lichtenstein is known for Pop imagery cartoon painting. Roy Lichtenstein Born: 1923 - New York City Died: 1997 - New York City Roy Lichtenstein is remembered as one of the 20th century's greatest and most influential artists. An excellent painter and sculptor, Lichtenstein was a pioneer whose unique visual language became the transitional voice between the modern and post-modern art movements of the late 20th century. Ruth E. Fine, Curator of Modern Prints and Drawings for the National Gallery of Art, distinguishes four areas of Lichtenstein's work that became "potent forces in late 20th Century art" : 1)the breakdown of barriers between art and life, using everyday objects and subjects appropriate to consumer culture, 2)an exploration of art based on other art, 3)an interest in serial imagery, and 4)participation in the untraditional medium of printmaking. Born in New York City in 1923, Roy grew up in a city that epitomized the ideals and machinations of modernism. He therefore gained a unique understanding of the affects of modern life on the solitary soul, the group, and the society at-large. Growing up during the depression years and coming of age at the start of World War II, he was greatly influenced by the jazz clubs of Harlem and the boxing matches and carnivals of Coney Island. At the age of 14, he began classes at Parson's School of Design, and at 16 he studied at the Art Students League under Reginald Marsh, and by 1940 he was enrolled as a painting major at Ohio State University, Columbus. His education was interrupted from 1943-1946 by a European tour of duty during World War II. He began his artistic career as an abstract expressionist painter exploring the ideas of spontaneity and the "epoch of crisis" inherent in action painting. As America began to move past the effects of World War II and into prosperous times, art no longer needed to be an emotional reaction to the effects of nuclear war and industrialization. Instead, it became a commentary on American prosperity and the commercial boom that resulted from the war efforts. Roy Lichtenstein's paintings and prints are the embodiment of this change. By 1961 Roy began to use objects and images from mass culture and advertising. He adapted painting techniques and imagery from comic strips, commercial printing, stenciling, and projected images. Good Morning, Darling, , Whaam! (1963), and Big Painting VI (1965) are among his most popular comic strip paintings. These blowups of the original cartoon were reproduced by hand and brought him unparalleled attention. His art consisted of black outlines, stripes, dots, brushstrokes, flat fields, foils, and patterns such as canvas weave and wood grain. The idea of appropriating imagery from popular culture transformed Lichtenstein into a leader of the New York City based pop art movement along with artists like Andy Warhol. During this time he also produced elegant sculptures that revived earlier forms of the 1930s, as seen in his Modern Sculpture with Glass Wave(1967). Roy Lichtenstein's Bull Profile Series is one of his most popular series of his lithographic works. Completed in 1973, Lichtenstein's purpose during this period was to explore the "progression of an image from representation to abstraction". To illustrate this progression, Roy's Bull unfolds in 7 different phases. Beginning with a monochromatic palette, he gradually breaks down the form into many geometrical compliments, he sections the picture plane using areas of color and diagonal lines. These shapes become more abstract until they are simply flat planes of color. Once the deconstruction of the Bull has been completed, Roy returns to the original form with a new interpretation in primary colors that are indicative of the pop-art movements re-interpretation of commercial art. Working with stencils, Roy Lichtenstein developed a technique using rows of dots that mimicked the commercial printing patterns used in the production of comic books. This resemblance was further emphasized by Lichtenstein's selection of a palette of bright primary colors that replicated the chromatic range of comic books. In addition, the artist has produced several large scale sculptures commissioned for public places, most notably Mermaid in Miami Beach. Lichtenstein's unconventional paintings, regarded by many as beyond the bounds of fine art during the 1960s, are now considered icons of the Pop Art movement and have secured the artist's place in art history. Roy Lichtenstein has had retrospectives at the Tate Gallery in London, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Other than paintings and sculptures, the artist produced a number of prints for which he used different techniques: lithographs, screenprints, etchings and woodcuts. Often he combined these techniques in one print. Museums: Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY) Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX) Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL) Ball State University Museum of Art (Muncie, IN) Boca Raton Museum of Art (Boca Raton, FL) Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA) City Museum, Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI) Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR) Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX) Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO) Everson Museum Of Art (Syracuse, NY) Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI) Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA) Gallery of Modern Art (Frankfurt An der Oder, Germany) Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY (Flushing, NY) Goteborg Art Gallery (Goteborg, Sweden) High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC) Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art (Denver, CO) Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, CA) Lowe Art Museum (Coral Gables, FL) McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, TX) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, NY) Miami Art Museum (Miami, FL) Michael C Carlos Museum (Atlanta, GA) Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN) Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Fort Worth, TX) Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia (Columbia, MO) Museum of Art at Brigham Young University (Provo, UT) Museum of Fine Arts-St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, FL) Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden) Museum of the 20th Century (Vienna, Austria) National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian (Washington, DC) National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC) Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY) Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma City, OK) Orlando Museum of Art (Orlando, FL) Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum (Milwaukee, WI) Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ) Portland Museum of Art, Maine (Portland, ME) Reynolda House-Museum of American Art (Winston-Salem, NC) Rockford Art Museum (Rockford, IL) Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO) San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA) (San Francisco, CA) Sheffield Art Galleries G & Mappin (Sheffield, United Kingdom) Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE) Simon Fraser University Collection (Burnaby, BC) Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City, NY) Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Loretto, PA) Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, KS) Storm King Art Center (Mountainville, NY) Tate Britain (London, England) Tate Modern/Tate Gallery, London (London, United Kingdom) The Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AR) The Canton Museum of Art (Canton, OH) The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, FL) The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO) The Newark Museum (Newark, NJ) The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA) The University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ) The University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI) Wallrof Richartz Museum (Koln, Germany) Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (Hagerstown, MD) Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis, MN) Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT)

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Location: Pasadena, California

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