Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody. Favoring the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop Art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein

My photo is of a piece of an industrial signage, for what I do not know, but it reminded me of the pop art aesthetic of the 1960s. It has a quality found in some of the paintings by the well-known artist Roy Lichtenstein. Roy Lichtenstein used a comic book style in his work often adding large comic book words, placed in a stylized shape to denote sounds or emotions. Remember the old Batman TV series during fights words like “Pow” or “Bam” or “Zap” which would appear on screen much like the words in a comic book or in this case Roy Lichtenstein paintings. He sterilized the cultural icons of his time. He could take a love scene or a war image and take out all of the subtleties eliminating subtle color, three-dimensional modeling, and reduce the work to flat color shapes and Ben-Day dots.
(See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Day_dots) By working in this style he could reduce almost anything he choose to trivial visual parody, which reflected icons of our culture. It didn’t matter if the subject was political heroes or landscapes, his touch rendered them comical. One of my favorite subjects is of paint strokes that become flat graphic sterilized pattern with none of the character of real brush strokes on canvas. Here are a few examples of that:

http://www.mikeettner.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/lichtenstein-brushstroke-painting-1.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2532/3705048994_ae82c3cf48.jpg

He playfully pokes fun at each of us, and for myself, I find his exaggerated humor compelling. Beneath the humor he used his art to hold each of us up to a mirror, making the art frightening and humorous at the same time. Always to the point or should I say dot.

http://bsu.edu/artinsight/images/sweetdreams.jpg

http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/images/0137.jpg

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