Word: lichtensteins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cartoonist I was interested in Roy Lichtenstein's comments on comic strips in your article on pop art. Though he may not, as he says, copy them exactly, Lichtenstein in his painting currently being shown at the Guggenheim comes pretty close to the last panel of my Steve Roper Sunday page of Aug. 6, 1961. Very flattering ... I think...
What Is Art? Roy Lichtenstein, 39, is best known for blown-up comic strips full of POWS, BLAMS, and unfinished quotes in big balloons. He says that such things are not done so easily as they seem. Though he uses real comic strips as models, he does not copy them exactly; there is enough change so that he can claim to impose his own order on them. This, he says, makes the viewer "wonder what the original was. It brings out the question, 'What is art?' " Indeed it does...
...Lichtenstein should ask it of himself more often, and so should Jim Dine, 27. When Dine builds up paint into outsize neckties, suspenders or coats, he says he is after "a personal statement, memories. I am interested in things that have happened and have to be recorded." Just what the urgency of such memories is is hard to figure out, but Dine switches projects with every season. He has made a painting out of a green-spattered lawnmower, has exhibited in Europe a whole series of tools. He has also produced bathrooms...
...Gottlieb, Motherwell and Willem de Kooning. Last week Janis was the cause of a good deal of speculation with his big new show of "pop art." Instead of the masters of abstractionism, he has gooey cakes of painted plaster by Claes Oldenburg, blown-up comic strips by Roy Lichtenstein, rearranged billboards by James Rosenquist, portraits of cans of soup by Andy Warhol. Janis has apparently spotted a new bandwagon-but he did not discover...
...interior line men protecting Beasley are: tackles, Lichtenstein and Bill Zalinski; guards. Whit Lee and Bob Barrett; and center, Jim Driscoll...