Roy Lichtenstein

ROY LICHTENSTEIN
 
 
Roy Lichtenstein  (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist.  During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement.  His work defined the premise of pop art through parody.  Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein produced precise compositions that documented while it parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
 
 

I can still remember the incredible joy I felt when I first found this remarkable album by the Deviants called Ptooff! that I knew only by reputation.  The cover is a comic-book style science-fiction scene with two quotes in “balloons”; one of them – “When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake!!” – was adapted from a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson.  What a wonderful subject this album cover would have made for a painting by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein!

 
(March 2014/1)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021