Artist Analysis on Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein
The colours used are pretty bold, consisting of blue, black, white, red and yellow and shows a high contrast of shading used for the foreground depiction of the plane. It is of a comic-like sort and is using the ‘Ben-Day Dots’ technique, named after illustrator and printer – Benjamin Day. Depending on the effect, colour and optical illusion needed, small coloured dots are closely-spaced, widely-spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots, for example, are widely-spaced to create pink. 1950s and 1960s pulp comic books used Ben-Day dots in the four process colours (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) to inexpensively create shading and secondary colours such as green, purple, orange and flesh tones.
The artwork entitled ‘Whaam!” was made and produced by Roy Lichtenstein during 1963 and is based upon a comic-book panel from a 1962 issue of DC Comics’ All-American Men Of War. The artist, Roy Lichtenstein is well-known for his work in the long running theme of Pop Art that emerged in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In Pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. Roy Lichtenstein was born in October 27, 1923 and died in September 29, 1997.
Looking at this piece of artwork; we can gather that it is a depiction of a plane shooting down another in a certain representation of war and conflict. The pilot’s thoughts are read out in a yellow speech bubble above the image of his aircraft. The artwork itself is in landscape form, comprising of two square canvas panels places right next to each other to give a more comic-book feel to it.
Lichtenstein had used Magna atop a canvas. Magna is a type of acrylic paint. Lichtenstein liked to use Magna because it is easily removed with turpentine and because he feels it shows colour better than many water-based acrylic
The colours used are pretty bold, consisting of blue, black, white, red and yellow and shows a high contrast of shading used for the foreground depiction of the plane. It is of a comic-like sort and is using the ‘Ben-Day Dots’ technique, named after illustrator and printer – Benjamin Day. Depending on the effect, colour and optical illusion needed, small coloured dots are closely-spaced, widely-spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots, for example, are widely-spaced to create pink. 1950s and 1960s pulp comic books used Ben-Day dots in the four process colours (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) to inexpensively create shading and secondary colours such as green, purple, orange and flesh tones.
The artwork entitled ‘Whaam!” was made and produced by Roy Lichtenstein during 1963 and is based upon a comic-book panel from a 1962 issue of DC Comics’ All-American Men Of War. The artist, Roy Lichtenstein is well-known for his work in the long running theme of Pop Art that emerged in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In Pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. Roy Lichtenstein was born in October 27, 1923 and died in September 29, 1997.
Looking at this piece of artwork; we can gather that it is a depiction of a plane shooting down another in a certain representation of war and conflict. The pilot’s thoughts are read out in a yellow speech bubble above the image of his aircraft. The artwork itself is in landscape form, comprising of two square canvas panels places right next to each other to give a more comic-book feel to it.
Lichtenstein had used Magna atop a canvas. Magna is a type of acrylic paint. Lichtenstein liked to use Magna because it is easily removed with turpentine and because he feels it shows colour better than many water-based acrylic