Thursday, January 10, 2008

SUBURBAN BLISS!

Pop, as Lichenstein saw it, was an "anti" movement, opposing "all of those brilliant ideas" of the past. This is from G. R. Swenson who wrote some articles about Pop art in the early 1960s.

Interiors Series: Blue Floor, 1990

This one by Roy Lichtenstein uses the printing media of lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint. This is huge and comes in at 51 1/4 inches by 77 1/2 inches. Thus, it`s hard to get the complete effect from this rendering. Oh, yesterday`s article was in Newsweek, not Time. It`s 'Special Report the Story of Pop'. You must read it, because it was written in 1966, and has the spontaneity and authenticity of that time. It hasn`t been retread through constant redefining of Pop art, I mean. Blue floor was taken from an industrial catalog and then processed into a redefined piece of Pop. This is the perfect suburban life of the 1960s!

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