{"id":63000,"date":"2022-05-05T02:20:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T02:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/?p=63000"},"modified":"2022-05-05T02:20:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T02:20:55","slug":"americas-neon-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/blog\/americas-neon-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Neon Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csJT1QKSulA?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe>Welcome to America\u2019s Neon Nostalgia, a blog about the art and influence of Roy Lichtenstein. The word \u201cneon\u201d is almost synonymous with New York City culture, so it makes sense that Roy Lichtenstein, one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century, was influenced by neon signs.<\/p>\n<p>Description of the Blog This blog is dedicated to exploring some of the connections between Roy Lichtenstein and American culture in general. It will include posts on his life and artworks, as well as posts on topics related to the history and cultural influences that helped shape him. While this blog focuses on New York City and America in general, it will also include information relating specifically to Lichtenstein\u2019s work. As a result, it will not be possible to cover everything about his life or career. However, I will do my best to provide as much relevant information as possible within this scope.<\/p>\n<p>I have been interested in Roy Lichtenstein for a long time. In fact, I remember reading about him before I became interested in art at all, which was when I was only 8 years old! It may seem odd that someone would become interested in art from a young age before they really knew what it was or had<\/p>\n<p>Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. He is famous for his comic-strip inspired oil paintings, his use of Ben-Day dots and hard edges, and his depiction of subjects of popular culture such as Pop Art, pulp magazines and advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>With his signature wave of the hand, Roy Lichtenstein created a new art form and helped launch what would become a worldwide movement. His paintings were produced in a variety of sizes, media, and styles. From the early 1960s until the end of his life, he produced more than 500 paintings that challenged the accepted notions of originality and appropriation in art. A solo retrospective in six museums across America introduced a wide audience to Lichtenstein&#8217;s work in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>Lichtenstein&#8217;s first one-man show was at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City in 1962. A significant part of his career was devoted to producing lithographs, beginning in 1963 with an edition of 200 copies for his exhibition at Castelli Gallery. In 1965, he began experimenting with sculpture, and produced his first pieces using ceramic shards. By 1968, he had produced several thousand sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to produce many other series including &#8220;Brushstrokes&#8221; (1963), &#8220;Clamshells&#8221; (1965<\/p>\n<p>Roy Lichtenstein is an American artist and his art style is the pop art which was developed in the 1960s. Lichtenstein became famous with his \u201cpop paintings\u201d which were originally based on comic strips.<\/p>\n<p>The retired American graphic artist, Roy Lichtenstein was born on 23rd September 1923 in New York. He studied at the New School of Design (New York) for seven years and then he worked as a designer for several magazines such as \u201cLook\u201d, \u201cEsquire\u201d and \u201cWoman&#8217;s Day\u201d. In 1961, he began to deal with fine arts and his works were exhibited in galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Lichtenstein&#8217;s most famous works are &#8220;Whaam!&#8221; (1963), &#8220;Drowning Girl&#8221; (1963), &#8220;Bratatat!&#8221; (1962), &#8220;Ohhh..Alright&#8221; (1961) or &#8220;I Can See The Whole Room&#8230;And There&#8217;s Nobody In It!&#8221; (1961). His work was praised by Andy Warhol who said: \u201cI think Lichtenstein is terrific&#8230;He takes something that everyone has seen a thousand times before and makes it new. That&#8217;s what painting is all about\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Dubuffet (1901-1985) was a French painter, sculptor and poet. His art is known for being non-figurative, which means that his paintings consist of various abstract shapes and colors.<\/p>\n<p>He was born in the town of Le Havre, France in the year 1901. He was raised by his parents in a very strict Catholic home where he was required to spend a great deal of his time studying art and drawing. His father had very high expectations for him as a child and he never failed to fulfill these expectations. In fact, he would eventually go on to be considered one of the greatest artists of all time.<\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons why Roy Dubuffet\u2019s art is so important. One of the biggest reasons is the fact that it helped to inspire the Pop Art movement. This art movement gained popularity in the United States during the 1950\u2019s through the 1970\u2019s and it consisted of realistic images created from commonplace items and images from popular culture such as advertisements. Many artists from this movement went on to become some of the most popular artists in history including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg among others.<\/p>\n<p>After Roy Dubuffet passed away<\/p>\n<p>Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. He is most famous for his paintings of comic-strip images. His paintings have sold for as much as $165 million. He was able to capture the visual style of comic books and advertisements and turn them into fine art.<\/p>\n<p>Lichtenstein&#8217;s work is part of the Pop Art movement, which began in England in the early 1950s. This movement rejected Abstract Expressionism and its emphasis on emotion, color, and brushstrokes. Instead, the Pop artists concentrated on common objects and images from everyday life. They tried to make these ordinary subject matter look new, interesting, modern and fun.<\/p>\n<p>Lichtenstein used mechanical processes to reproduce the look of commercial printing styles on his canvases. He also used industrial materials such as metal sheets, enamel paint, and Plexiglas\u2122 for his artworks.<\/p>\n<p>He became famous for a series of large-scale paintings of banal subjects: advertisements, movie posters and store displays. Lichtenstein would first create a black-and-white line drawing based on a comic book or advertisement he liked. Then he would cut out the outlines of these figures using a scalpel knife and paste them onto a canvas in primary colors.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Roy Lichtenstein made a series of paintings that showed comic-strip panels with their speech bubbles removed. The new works, which Lichtenstein called &#8220;non-illustrational paintings,&#8221; took the place of the original narratives. In 1962, he created Look Mickey, a painting that used the same visual elements as Andy Warhol&#8217;s Campbell&#8217;s soup cans: an image of Mickey Mouse from a 1930s advertisement for chocolate malted milkshakes. Look Mickey is one of Lichtenstein&#8217;s best-known works, and it is widely considered to be an example of Pop Art.<\/p>\n<p>Titled What&#8217;s Good for General Motors Is Good for the Country, the 1971 work was used by GM as part of its promotional campaign during that year to urge consumers to buy American cars instead of foreign ones. The text in this poster is taken from a speech by Charles Erwin Wilson, who served as president of GM from 1941 to 1953, was U.S. Secretary of Defense under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1957, and then became Eisenhower&#8217;s second Secretary of Defense in 1959.*<\/p>\n<p>The text reads: &#8220;What&#8217;s good for our country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.&#8221; This statement helped solidify the idea<\/p>\n<p>In the early days of Pop Art there was a lot of discussion about whether the movement was copying or parodying consumer culture. Lichtenstein&#8217;s paintings, with their comic book lettering and use of techniques associated with mass-produced goods, seemed to be a commentary on commercial culture.<\/p>\n<p>And yet his work is not just about consumerism. A lot of it seems to be about nostalgia for childhood pleasures. There is a sad innocence in his recurring images of ice cream, balloons, flowers and kites.<\/p>\n<p>In the end I think his work is neither parody nor criticism. 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