Bull Profile Series
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997)
Publisher: Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl , Los Angeles
Printer: Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl , Los Angeles
Date: 1973
Dimensions:
H: 27 in. (68.6 cm); W: 35 in. (88.9 cm)
Medium: Lithographs, screenprints, linocuts.
Place of Origin: Los Angeles
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by the Toledo Modern Art Group in honor of Julie Mellby and Robert F. Phillips and with Museum Purchase Funds
Object number: 2004.15A-F
Label Text:"All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract."
In his typical Pop Art tongue-in-cheek way, Roy Lichtenstein here treats one of the overriding subjects of 20th-century art: the relationship between representation and abstraction. The image of a bull (itself simplified into a kind of icon) is deconstructed to its basic form and structure until it becomes purely geometrical.
Beginning in the early 1960s, Lichtenstein was one of the pioneers of using and adapting the aesthetic and techniques of commercial art like advertising and comic strips.
In his typical Pop Art tongue-in-cheek way, Roy Lichtenstein here treats one of the overriding subjects of 20th-century art: the relationship between representation and abstraction. The image of a bull (itself simplified into a kind of icon) is deconstructed to its basic form and structure until it becomes purely geometrical.
Beginning in the early 1960s, Lichtenstein was one of the pioneers of using and adapting the aesthetic and techniques of commercial art like advertising and comic strips.
DescriptionLichtenstein's Bull Profile Series humorously references both the artist's own pop and mass media style, and the history/development of modern art. Sequentially arranged, the six prints recapitulate the development from representation to abstraction, utilizing the image of a bull.
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