Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) (after) - As I Opened Fire Poster, Triptych.

ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923 - 1997)
As I Opened Fire Poster, Triptych.

The complete set of three offset lithograph on wove paper, from the edition of 3,140,1966.

Printed by Drukkerj Luii & Co., Amsterdam.
Published by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.


64Hx52cm

Perfekter Zustand!

Dieses Kunstwerk entstand 1966. Es entstammt der Auflage, die nach 1966, aber vor 1997, dem Todesdatum des Künstlers, gedruckt wurde.

Sehr wichtig: Das Todesdatum erscheint nicht. In anderen Ausgaben steht „Roy Lichtenstein 1923 – 1997“, was bedeutet, dass es sich um Ausgaben nach seinem Tod handelt.

Mary Lee Corlett, Introduction by Ruth E. Fine, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein. A Catalogue Raisonné 1948-1997. 2. Revised Edition. New York 2002, S. 324, App.5.

More on As I Opened Fire:
Early on in his career Roy Lichtenstein based his work mostly on cartoons and comic books. This triptych drew from the comic book "All American Men of War". The three images in As I Opened Fire work together to tell a story. The narrative is reinforced with carefully added text. This work references a revolution in art in the 1960s. Formally, Lichtenstein appropriated images from popular culture. He inserted them into a fine art context enlarging them, altering them slightly and painting them on canvas. Thus, the artist obscured the border of high and low art. He followed a strict, self-imposed formal vocabulary. Lichtenstein emphasized primary colors, black contours and enlarged 'Benday dots' frequently seen in mechanical reproductions. This work, a typical example of Pop art, can be understood as a reaction against Abstraction Expressionism. Lichtenstein responds with the erasure of the artist's hand in his painting. (source: Stedelijk Museum)