Word: lichtenstein
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...Artist Roy Lichtenstein, who painted this week's cover, says that Kennedy is one of the very few real people he has ever portrayed. The 44-year-old artist usually turns out comic-strip-style superheroes with square jaws and their girl friends with superperfect coiffures. What he liked most about Kennedy, he says, was his "lively, upstart quality and pop-heroic proportions as part of a legend...
...marry he does, and he is transformed by Chayefskyean legerdemain into a happy, prospective father. To his considerable grief, the child is stillborn. Meantime, with his tax man spurring him on, Morley has acquired a corporate identity, liens on real estate, a sub rosa connection with the Mafia, a Lichtenstein subsidiary. The erstwhile writer becomes monomaniacally absorbed in profits and tax losses, an attitude that is presumably symbolic of the subversion of art by money...
When the two pop artists first strode out upon the New York City art scene with their motley amalgams of commercial layouts, graphic devices and gigantic blowups, Rosenquist and Lichtenstein seemed as hard to tell apart as Hamlet's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern...
...Lichtenstein, 44, the Leonardo of the funnies, has attracted 20,000 people in his first ten days at London's august Tate Gallery, where he is the first living American to be given a full-dress retrospective. Critics rhapsodized over his Ben Day dots and thought balloons, his deadpan spoofs of modern art, his tear-stained blondes and stone-faced Steve Canyon heroes. Said the London Observer: "The calmest crystallizer of our generation, a kind of Ingres from Manhattan...
Neither Rosenquist nor Lichtenstein has rested by the wayside. Each has explored new avenues of expression, Lichtenstein with a series of nonobjective "modern paintings" and tubular sculptures in the style of the 1930s thai some observers believe heralds the ad vent of a whole new nostalgic school of art. Rosenquist has taken to painting his images onto transparent Mylar, then slicing it into strips to create a new kind of "walk-through sculpture." But he will not abandon brush and can vas. "Oil painting may be old-fashioned," he says, "but I don't think any medium is dead...