Roy Lichtenstein at MoMA

I would name this Still Life with Mondrian and Hat Carrier. I know that I should not call names on the works of Roy Lichtenstein, but I like enormously his art, so I hope to be forgiven.

(MoMA)

The Deceptive House of Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein - House I
model 1996, fabricated 1998
fabricated and painted aluminum

The house is changing its shape as you move in front of her. A great creation of Roy Lichtenstein, on view in the Sculpture Garden of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Roy Lichtenstein is best known for the pop paintings based on advertisements and comic strips that he made in the 1960s. He also produced a significant body of sculpture, including large-scale works designed for the outdoors. House I incorporates the hallmarks of the artist's style: crisp, elemental drawing, heavy black outlines, and a palette based on primary colors. Whereas most of the artist's sculpture approximates freestanding paintings in relief rather than volumetric structures in the round, some of his late sculpture, such as House I, exploits the illusionistic effects of a third dimension. The side of the house at once projects toward the viewer while appearing to recede into space (NGA).

(Washington DC National Gallery of Art)

(Contemporary Art)

The Day SAAM Got A Head

The day when Roy Lichtenstein's sculpture Modern Head was installed in front of the American Art Museum (August 27, 2008 - Eye Level)

(Contemporary Art)
(American Art and Portraiture)

The Blondes of Roy Lichtenstein at Gagosian

Bill Ray - Roy Lichtenstein and His World, 1962
Leo Castelli Gallery

I wish I were in New York this moment. Some great exhibitions at galleries in SoHo and Chelsea, all opened only till Saturday, closed on Sunday. I should leave on Saturday morning and go straight to Castelli, or to Tony Shafrazi, or to Gagosian, and of course I wouldn't be able to see all three in the same day.

Gagosian has a Roy Lichtenstein show on its Madison Avenue site: twelve paintings glorifying twelve female creatures otherwise known as women (as Roberta Smith puts it in her art review from NY Times). Roy adored women, it's what Mrs. Dorothy Lichtenstein, the artist's widow, confesses in the show's catalog.

So twelve beauties. One of them is even a brunet: at the view of this Little Aloha, silence is turning film noir (according to Roberta Smith, and I'm giving her all credit).



Well, I won't be able to make it, to come to New York till end of June when the show ends. So I keep only this image on the blog, perhaps the sweetest blonde ever:




(Contemporary Art)

(New York, New York)