#benday dots

[digitalfossils]

[ladythatsmyskull]

Comic book style art with benday dots background on vacuum cleaner packaging. He’s yelling about filters.

[visualfluxblog]

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[lostprofile]

DEALING WITH ROY LICHTENSTEIN

I’d rather use the word ‘dealing with’ than ‘parody.’ I am sure there are certain aspects of irony, but I get really involved in making the paintings when I am working on them, and I think just to make parodies or to be ironic about something in the past is much too much of a joke for that to carry your work as a work of art. – Roy Lichtenstein.

[lostprofile]

ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Landscapes in the Chinese Style 1995/97

Much like the reproductions of Song landscapes the artist then consulted, these works project the illusion of a transcendent realm. The vastness of nature in both Song works and his renditions is heightened by the inclusion of tiny details such as a lone tree, boat, or philosopher in repose. Lichtenstein’s virtuosity is especially impressive, as he used a technical approach radically different from traditional Chinese brushwork. This was a consequence of both dot size—Treetops through the Fog (1996), for example, utilizes at least 15 different sizes—and the complex spacing, which accounts for the extraordinary suggestion of atmosphere.

The Chinese landscapes, the last series Lichtenstein completed before his death in 1997, were included in the retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012.

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[merildae]

i have painted so many dots. so many.

[theartsyproject]

Roy Lichtenstein, Sunrise, 1965. 

[missangelillo-blog]

8th Grade Roy Lichtenstein Benday Dot Portraits