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Lichtenstein Gullscape Print
Lichtenstein Gullscape Print
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Roy Lichtenstein is known for importing the mundane visual vocabularies of comic strips and commercial advertising into the exalted realm of fine art. Using a projector, the artist in 1961 culled images from popular magazines, newspapers and comic books and blew them up to the monumental scale of an Abstract Expressionist painting, a genre and style the artist had experimented with in the 1950s. What intrigued Lichtenstein about the enlargement process was how the light and dark areas of these half-tone illustrations lost their definition and broke down into Ben-Day dots, which are used in modern industrial printing to create tonal areas that are invisible to the eye on the printed page. As Gullscape, 1964 attests, the artist made Ben-Day dot patterns an integral part of his Pop art canvases.
Even if factory-made for mass consumption, the image reproduced in Gullscape contains a haunting ambiguity. Resembling vapor trails left behind by aircraft or missiles, the cloud shapes in Gullscape menacingly speak to Cold War anxieties, particularly those sparked by the Vietnam War.
19.9 x 16.9cm (image only)
35.2 x 27.8 x 0.1cm (including white matting)
made in New Zealand
Unframed prints can be shipped both nationally and internationally, framed prints are only available to be shipped within Aotearoa, New Zealand.
