Roy Lichtenstein: Like New - Whitney Museum of American Art - New York
Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop paintings of the early 1960s startled the art world and the public alike. Long before “appropriation” became a familiar term, he borrowed images from comic books and newspaper advertisements, refined their compositions and enlarged them onto canvas. His works imitate the bold outlines, flat colours and Ben-Day dots of commercial printing, yet each one was painstakingly made by hand.
Roy Lichtenstein: Like New is the first retrospective of the artist in New York since 1993. Spanning six decades of painting, drawing, sculpture, film and prints, it brings together his best-known paintings with lesser-known works and four re-created murals.
Born in 1923, Lichtenstein lived and worked mostly in New York and Southampton until his death in 1997. His influence reaches far beyond Pop Art, shaping later generations of artists and the way we look at images.
Organised by Meg Onli with guest curator Alex Da Corte, the exhibition shows that Lichtenstein’s fascination with how images are copied, altered and transformed feels especially relevant in today’s digital world. Go to Website
