Word: lichtenstein
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...gone, and where is their typical art? Nobody seems to know. Everyone still knows what the art of the '60s looked like. It looked like Claes Oldenburg's giant Mickey Mouse, like Andy Warhol's cans or Roy Lichtenstein's enlarged comic strips. Such pieces now have a period air of things meant to be consumed quickly-EAT ME! as the lettering on Alice's cake read. They constitute an art of rapid memorable icons that expected to be assimilated and exhausted in quick bursts, as indeed they were...
...walk-in Hoppers," sculptural equivalents to the world of that American master, with its nocturnal bars and waiting figures. Segal's tableaux have a flavor of the '30s-overlaid, now and then, with a sharp erotic curiosity. Instead of the irony of a '60s Warhol or Lichtenstein, one is treated to an unremitting earnestness, a moral concern with the voids between people and the circumspectness of their gestures. It is a somber sight, this "populist art," as one of Segal's admirers dubbed it; and it gives a special density to the retrospective of 100 works...
BACK in the mid-sixties pop art made its debut on the American scene; all the most ludicrous examples of mass urban culture shined as serious artworks. Andy Warhol got rich off his Campbell soup cans, George Segal for his over-all plaster casts of live human beings, Roy Lichtenstein for his comic strip tableaux...
...Like a package-tour guide, he hits the peaks and some of the troughs. The visual impact of the more than 350 color plates is vigorous. But the pace of the survey is so brisk that the reader may find himself thinking, "If this is Thursday, it must be Lichtenstein...
Natalie G. Lichtenstein '75, a second-year Law student, director-at-large; Ellen Bower Feingold '50, Eleanor Blackall Read '39, and Alice Maginnis Walsh '30, members of the nominating committee, were also elected...