I am trying to do a painting in the style of Roy Lichtenstein. If I was younger, I would've had to go to the library and look all of this up, but thanks to the internet and specifically Wikipedia, I know his name is pronounced with the last part sounding like the word price (STEIN sounds like price instead of sounding like clean).
I also learned that this is called Ben-Day style after Benjamin Day who lived in the 1800s and then I lost interest. I mean, didn't we all?
Back to Lichtenstein:
I like the colors in the Brad one.
The Kiss V one I actually got to see in Seattle at their awesome art museum.
I took this photo not realizing we weren't supposed to photograph the Lichtensteins at all.
That was an amazing trip and when I saw the Jackson Pollock "Sea Change," it was the first time I ever got emotionally moved by a painting to the point where I started crying. I felt a kinship to him.
All I could think about was how lonely it must've been to throw gravel on a painting. Not many people use gravel in paintings, or would think to, and when you're not like the many, sometimes, I suppose, it might be lonely.
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