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29-AUG-2012

who is it Sat 16

do you recognise
the person depicted in this Roy Lichtenstein painting?

Answer:
Roy Lichtenstein painted this picture in 1962 and called it George Washington.
The notes below are from; http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/Lichtenstein/artwork/200098
Roy Lichtenstein mined the visual clichés of illustration, embracing the look of mass-produced images in his paintings.George Washington, an early work by the artist, was created while he was focusing on black-and-white, single-object paintings of ordinary commercial products. Throughout his career, Lichtenstein referenced art-historical sources in his painting. Based on a woodcut version of Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of the first American president, found in a Hungarian national newspaper, Lichtenstein’s canvas also references the likeness of George Washington that appears on the one-dollar bill. Simplified in the artist’s characteristic graphic style, this image includes red and black Benday dots that create the illusion of volume while referencing the flat reproduction of the printing process.

Nikon D3X
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Date/Time29-Aug-2012 02:02:00
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ISO Equivalent100
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