Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) - Study for Preparedness - Achenbach

Roy Lichtenstein
Study for Preparedness
Achenbach. Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Art print on heavy paper, after the original from 1968.
Picture: 70 cm x 90 cm
In good condition

Roy Lichtenstein, born October 27, 1923 in New York, was the most consistent painter of Pop Art. Lichtenstein drew from his works popular pictorial formulas from comics, advertising and cartoons, or from famous artworks and painting styles, removing them from their usual contexts. The resulting estrangement effect, much like in Andy Warhol's works, contributed to making consumer contexts visible. Roy Lichtenstein's works were serious attempts to bridge the gap between so-called highbrow art, the refined art, and lowbrow art, the trivial and popular. In this way, painting for the first time reflected on the technical possibilities that a work of art possessed in the age of mechanical reproducibility. Roy Lichtenstein shaped his images through halftone techniques, clear contrasts, and a restriction to primary colors in the look of cheap prints. In doing so, Lichtenstein created image signs that soon every viewer associated with the term Pop Art. By replacing the painterly texture of conventional painting with an industrial texture achieved through a limitation of printing techniques via halftone dots, Lichtenstein elicited in the viewer the necessary critical distance that made them consciously aware of the unconscious consumption of mass-produced items like comics or images. Roy Lichtenstein died at the end of September 1997 at the age of 73.