12/03/13
Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
Tate Modern, London
21 February – 27 May 2013
Coming on
to the art scene at the height of Abstract Expressionism, Roy Lichtenstein
(1923-1997) was to introduce yet another curve in the road into the history of
art in the 20th century.
Readily
admitting that “brushstrokes in painting convey a sense of grand gesture,” the
artist, renowned for his works based on comic strips, advertising imagery, and
hand-painted Benday dots, went on to correct that “in my hands, the brushstroke
becomes the depiction of a grand gesture.”
The
exhibition currently on show at Tate Modern, the first major Lichtenstein
retrospective for 20 years, displaying over 125 of his paintings and
sculptures, gives both space and credence to the study of his work as seeking
to examine the meaning of artistic representation in an age of burgeoning mass
reproduction.
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