[Pow] Sweet Dreams, Baby
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)
Publisher: Original Editions, Inc., New York
Date: 1966
Dimensions:
Overall: 37 1/2 x 27 5/8 in. (95.3 x 70.2 cm)
Medium: Screenprint (silk-screen)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 1971.156
Label Text:Richard Hamilton, one of the originators of Pop Art, described the style as “Popular; Transient; Expendable; Low Cost; Mass Produced; Young; Witty; Sexy; Gimmicky; Glamorous; and Big Business,” in a letter dated January 26, 1957.
Roy Lichtenstein, like Hamilton and other Pop artists, produced art that usurped mass media and consumerism, such as ads and comic books. He re-contextualized imagery from mass culture in an emotionally detached way, going so far as to remove all traces of the artist’s hand from the finished work.
Lichtenstein was born in New York City and began drawing as a hobby when he was a teenager. He attended Ohio State University where he later founded the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center, named after a respected and influential teacher. He began making Pop Art paintings featuring cartoon imagery and exaggerated Ben-Day dots (process for producing color in cheaply printed material) in the early 1960s.
Roy Lichtenstein, like Hamilton and other Pop artists, produced art that usurped mass media and consumerism, such as ads and comic books. He re-contextualized imagery from mass culture in an emotionally detached way, going so far as to remove all traces of the artist’s hand from the finished work.
Lichtenstein was born in New York City and began drawing as a hobby when he was a teenager. He attended Ohio State University where he later founded the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center, named after a respected and influential teacher. He began making Pop Art paintings featuring cartoon imagery and exaggerated Ben-Day dots (process for producing color in cheaply printed material) in the early 1960s.
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