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...greasy texture." It is also a slippery instrument in the hands of those who take drawing as lightly as it is taken today. Drawing has had its great days-the Renaissance, the 18th and 19th centuries -but it is impossible to doubt that the pop art of, say, Roy Lichtenstein (b. 1923) represents anything but a descent from the anonymous caveman who drew bison and deer with a masterly hand perhaps 15,000 years...
Bubbling & Expanding. As the fads rush by and art breaks out of its traditional boundaries, the public whose taste was formed earlier finds itself hard pressed. As Lady Bird Johnson remarked recently, while viewing a Roy Lichtenstein drawing: "I have friends who like it, own it, get excited about it. I keep trying." People who want a little peace and quiet in their art, Mrs. Peter Hurd said last week, are the ones who prefer the work of her brother, Andrew Wyeth. "He's probably painting the remnants of a simpler life," she admitted, and wondered...
...Lichtenstein's satiric cast overlooked pop itself. His Pistol, a banner made of felt, pokes fun at his fellow-cultists' ideals. Says he: "It is an exaggeration of a menacing, dangerous painting, a cliché describing modern painting done to an excessive degree, a play on the idea of a painting having a strong presence...
...Lichtenstein has gone on to kid other styles. Picasso was ripe for ribbing, he felt, because a Picasso "has become a kind of popular object-everyone feels he should have a reproduction of a Picasso in his home." In Woman with I Flowered Hat, Lichtenstein did "an oversimplification of Picasso, a kind of 'plain-pipe-racks' Picasso." Portions of the paintings were stenciled with Lichtenstein's distinctive Benday dots (applied with a toothbrush through a perforated screen) to simulate the effect of commercial printing-and also to remind the viewer that he is looking at the popular...
Baked Images. Little Big Painting is a gibe at the high seriousness that surrounded the cult of the brush stroke by the abstract expressionists. "The original brush stroke was a romantic outpouring," explains Lichtenstein. "Here I'm making a simulated brush stroke, but I've removed the idea of something full of passion." He believes that painting in an era of mass media should be impersonal. To heighten this effect, he has even had some of his works executed in porcelain enamel baked on steel panels, turned out these works in editions of six to eight...