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This rare poster is of the Dayton Art Institute's Roy Lichtenstein exhibition- November 29th to December 25th. The legendary Roy Lichtenstein was a major figure of the 1960's pop art movement.
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, The Twenty-Fourth Annual Ohio Printmakers’ Exhibition, November–December 1950.
About Roy Lichtenstein
When American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein painted Look Mickey in 1961, it set the tone for his career. This primary-color portrait of the cartoon mouse introduced Lichtenstein’s detached and deadpan style at a time when introspective Abstract Expressionism reigned. Mining material from advertisements, comics, and the everyday, Lichtenstein brought what was then a great taboo—commercial art—into the gallery. He stressed the artificiality of his images by painting them as though they’d come from a commercial press, with the flat, single-color Ben-Day dots of the newspaper meticulously rendered by hand using paint and stencils. Later in his career, Lichtenstein extended his source material to art history, including the work of Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso, and experimented with three-dimensional works. Lichtenstein’s use of appropriated imagery has influenced artists such as Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, and Raymond Pettibon.
American, 1923-1997, New York, New York, based in New York and Southampton, New York
Solo Shows
2016
New York,
2012
2011
Central, Hong Kong,
2010
New York,
Group Shows
2018
2018
2017
Miami,
2017
Montclair,
2016
Vienna,
2016
London,
New Tate Modern Switch House: Extension and Installation
2015
Miami,
Recent Acquisitions + Highlights from the MDC Permanent Art Collection
2014
