Word: lichtensteins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lichtenstein's cover drawing of Robert Kennedy, the New York Senator from Massachusetts, was superb. It provided an at-a-glance character analysis: colorful, comic, callow and caustic...
...landscapes, depicting logs, brooms, brushes and other oddments, poking fun at the high turnover in art vogues, or the foibles of collectors. Modern Sculpture With Weakness combines a log nearly chopped through, a plastic wheel with a slice removed and aluminum tubing tied with string. The whole kids Roy Lichtenstein's slick abstract "Modern Sculptures" and a high-flown review that attacked their "weakness...
...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...
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...