The Lichtenstein Project

[johnnystress]

For the last 25 years David Barsalou has examined over 30,000 comic
books (a kind of obsession) to find the cartoon images Lichtenstein
used in his work.

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I think one of the most notable things is how vastly superior the original drawings are

but maybe that's not the point

Link: http://davidbarsalou.homestead.com/LICHTENSTEINPROJECT.html" target="_blank">De-constructing Lichtenstein

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[nofuture]

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[Queen Firey-Bou]

My god thats nuts ! i had no idea, makes vetrianos stuff look like it has integrity in comparison. and he's rubbish at copying, in his reduction he's lost the slickn sweeps of the original lines.

wonder what the original & far superior comic book artists made of it ? wouldnt mind if he'd put "after so & so, from such n such".

[johnnystress]

The word "chancer" springs to mind

[Art]

Suck it haters! Lichensteins strength comes from making things simpler and BIG: Whaam is  7 foot by 14 foot, making it approximately 9800 times better than the tiny image it was based on.

[Matt Timson]

Pffft- he can't even trace properly.  He's no John Byrne, that's for sure...

[TordelBack]

Art knows his art (onanist), it's the impact of the giant panels divorced from their medium that is the point of Lichenstein's work, not the quality of the content, which is indeed far poorer than the orginals.  And as for being no John Byrne, at least everyone seems to have the right number of fingers...

[Matt Timson]

Well that just goes to prove how rubbish Lichtenstein is, surely?  And only a tracer as great as Byrne would give you an extra digit for free!

[Proudhuff]

yeah, but Byrne hasn't got a country named after him or a pop group after his pics nahnah.

[Peter Wolf]

 What is interesting about
Pop Art and Lichtenstein and Warhol etc is the way that Lichtenstein for example probably just picked those pages at random and copied not traced them onto canvas.They were enlarged as well but once painted the image does become iconic.Its the same with soupcans etc.What was a mundane object suddenly takes on a whole new meaning of its own.

 I just find that process quite interesting in itself even if i dont particularly like Lichtenstein.

[TordelBack]

I've been to Lichenstein.  It's nicer than you might imagine, but even smaller.  Oh the irony.