i12bent: The other great American art birthday of Oct. 27 is that of Roy Lichtenstein: 1922 - 1997… Above: Drowning Girl, 1963 - Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas (MoMA) “Lichtenstein found sources for many of his early paintings in comic books. The source for this work is “Run for Love!” published by DC Comics in 1962. In the original illustration, the drowning girl’s boyfriend appears in the background, clinging to a capsized boat. Lichtenstein cropped the image dramatically, showing the girl alone, encircled by a threatening wave. He shortened the caption from “I don’t care if I have a cramp!” to the ambiguous “I don’t care!” and changed the boyfriend’s name she calls out from Mal to Brad. In addition to appropriating the melodramatic content of comics, Lichtenstein manually simulated the Benday dots used in the mechanical reproduction of images.” (MoMA text)

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The other great American art birthday of Oct. 27 is that of Roy Lichtenstein: 1922 - 1997…

Above: Drowning Girl, 1963 - Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas (MoMA)

“Lichtenstein found sources for many of his early paintings in comic books. The source for this work is “Run for Love!” published by DC Comics in 1962. In the original illustration, the drowning girl’s boyfriend appears in the background, clinging to a capsized boat. Lichtenstein cropped the image dramatically, showing the girl alone, encircled by a threatening wave. He shortened the caption from “I don’t care if I have a cramp!” to the ambiguous “I don’t care!” and changed the boyfriend’s name she calls out from Mal to Brad. In addition to appropriating the melodramatic content of comics, Lichtenstein manually simulated the Benday dots used in the mechanical reproduction of images.” (MoMA text)

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