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...colors will read with infrangible aplomb. It will parody other art, as in the past Lichtenstein's work has parodied everything from Art Deco to synthetic Cubism, from Franz Marc's horses to Monet's versions of Rouen Cathedral, from Mondrian's squares to the generic brushstroke of late Abstract Expressionism. It will have a number of concealed jokes for the art-initiated, often genuinely funny ones -- as when, redoing Matisse's Still Life with "Dance" in 1974, Lichtenstein inserted a comic-strip blast of musical notes to give the figures something to jive to and popped a straw-bound...
...other hand, you can't really blame Roy Lichtenstein for not living up to Sophocles. Tragic elevation -- or at least the version of it promoted by the rhetoric of late Abstract Expressionism -- was exactly what he reacted against when he started out during the early '60s. Was real American art loaded with signs of commitment and authenticity -- Pollock drips, De Kooning stripes? Then Lichtenstein would go to the opposite extreme and paint thin copies of the least arty things within reach: romance and adventure comic strips...
Through Nov. 21: "Rothko's Harvard Murals." Five monumental abstract murals painted for the University...
...violence continues, the necessity of stopping it is superseding the abstract fear of military involvement in civil society. The momentum towards suppressing crime with overwhelming force is understandable, but premature. We have yet to exhaust the possibilities of lessening the violence by removing its ingredients...
Through Nov. 21: "Rothko's Harvard Murals." Five monumental abstract murals painted for the University...