Roy Lichtenstein, his quotes on Pop art painting, life facts and biography information
Roy Lichtenstein (1923 – 1997), his artist quotes on Pop Art painting and life by the American painter – with biography nformation; Lichtenstein explains in his quotes the use of comics and strips in prints and paintings. His art quotes illustrate very well his critical comments on Abstract Expressionism and the counter reaction by the Pop Art artists. Roy Lichtenstein was and still is famous for his frequent use of images from mainstream comics, advertisements and strips. Similar pop art artist were Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann. At the bottom useful links for more images and biography information on Roy Lichtenstein.
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Roy Lichtenstein: ‘Crack!’, 1964 |
Roy Lichtenstein, his quotes on American Pop Art & use of comics in his painting
- I think my work is different from comic strip – but I wouldn’t call it transformation… …What I do is form, whereas the comic strip is not formed in the sense I’m using the word; the comics have shapes, but there has been no effort to make them intensely unified. The purpose is different, one intends to depict and I intend to unify. And my work is actually different form comic strips in that every mark is really in a different place. However slight the difference seems to some.
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol “Movements in art since 1945″, Edward Lucie-Smith, Thames and Hudson 1975, p. 153 (American painter, famous for his Pop Art prints, paintings and lithographs, he made from comics strip images; links for biography facts at the bottom)
- Pop Art is the use of commercial art as a subject matter in painting, I suppose. It was hard to get a painting that was despicable enough so that no one would hang it – everybody was hanging everything. It was almost acceptable to hang a dripping paint rag, everybody ( (in America and mostly New York in the 1950s, fh) was accustomed to this. The one thing everyone hated was commercial art; and apparently they didn’t hate that enough either.
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol ‘What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters’, G. R. Swenson ‘Art News’ 67, November 1963, pp. 25-27.
- Well, it (Pop Art, fh) is an involvement with what I think to be the most brazen and threatening characteristics of our culture, things we hate, but which are also powerful in their impingement on us. I think art since Paul Cézanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art; it is utopian. It has had less and less to do with the world, it looks inward – neo Zen and all that. This is not so much a criticism as an obvious observation. Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world; it appears to accept its environment, which is not good or bad, but different – another state of mind.
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol ‘What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters’, G. R. Swenson ‘Art News’ 67, November 1963, pp. 25-27.
- ‘How can you exploitation?’ ‘How can you like the complete mechanization of work?’ ‘How can you like bad art?’ I have to answer that I accept it as being there, in the world.
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol ‘What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters’, G. R. Swenson ‘Art News’ 67, November 1963, pp. 25-27, 60-64.
- I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comics (his material where he starts making his art, fh) are interesting as subject matter. There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism and terrorism.
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol ‘What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters’, G. R. Swenson ‘Art News’ 67, November 1963, pp. 25-27, 60-64.
- Organized perception is what is art all about… …It is a process. It has nothing to do with any external form the painting takes, it has to do with a way of building a unified pattern of seeing…
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol ‘What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters’, G. R. Swenson ‘Art News’ 67, November 1963, pp. 25-27, 60-64 (American painter, famous for his Pop Art prints, paintings and lithographs, he made from comics strip images)
- In Abstract Expressionism the paintings symbolize the idea of ground-directedness as opposed to object-directedness. You put something down, react to it, put something else down, and the painting itself becomes a symbol of this. The difference is that rather than symbolize this ground-directedness I do an object-directed appearing thing. There is humor here. The work is still ground-directed; the fact that it’s an eyebrow or an almost direct copy of something is unimportant. The ground-directedness is in the painter’s mind and not immediately in apparent in the painting. Pop Art makes the statement that ground-directedness is not a quality that the painting has because of what it looks like…
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol ‘What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters’, G. R. Swenson ‘Art News’ 67, November 1963, pp. 25-27, 60-64.
- Artists have never worked with the model – just with the painting. What you (G. R. Swenson, fh) are really saying is that an artist like Cézanne transforms what we think the painting ought to look like into something he thinks it ought to look like. He’s working with paint, not nature; he’s making a painting, he’s forming. I think my work is different from comic strips – but I wouldn’t call it transformation; I don’t think that whatever is meant by it is important to art. What I do is form, whereas the comic strip is not formed in the sense I’m using the word; the comics have shapes but there has been no effort to make them intensely unified. The purpose is different, one intends to depict and I intend to unify.
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol ‘What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters’, G. R. Swenson ‘Art News’ 67, November 1963, pp. 25-27, 60-64.
- …my work is actually different from comic strips in that every mark is really in a different place, however slight the difference seems to some. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol ‘What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters’, G. R. Swenson ‘Art News’ 67, November 1963, pp. 25-27, 60-64.
- I paint directly – then it ‘s said to be an exact copy; and not art, probably because there’s no perspective or shading. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. Instead of looking like a painting of a billboard – the way a Reginald Marsh (American painter, fh) would look – Pop Art seems to be the actual thing. It is intensification, a stylistic intensification of the excitement which the subject matter has for me; but the style is, as you said, cool.
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol ‘What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters’, G. R. Swenson ‘Art News’ 67, November 1963, pp. 25-27, 60-64.
- One of the things a cartoon does is to express violent emotion and passion in a completely mechanical and removed style. To express this thing in a painterly style would dilute it; the techniques I use are not commercial, they only appear to be commercial – and the ways of seeing and composing and unifying are different and have different ends.
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol ‘What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters’, G. R. Swenson ‘Art News’ 67, November 1963, pp. 25-27, 60-64.
- Everybody has called Pop Art ‘American’ painting, but it’s actually industrial painting. America was hit by industrialism and capitalism harder and sooner and its values see more askew… …I think the meaning of my work is that it’s industrial; it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, so it (Pop Art, fh) won’t be American; it will be universal.
* Roy Lichtenstein, his Pop art artist quotes & biography & life facts; information on his prints, lithographs, style and his connection with Andy Warhol ‘What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters’, G. R. Swenson ‘Art News’ 67, November 1963, pp. 25-27, 60-64.
art links for biography information of the American Pop Art artist Roy Lichtenstein
* Pop Art artist Roy Lichtenstein, biography information on art and life; Wikipedia
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