Remembering Roy Lichtenstein, born on this day in 1923! His monumental sculpture, “Br
Remembering Roy Lichtenstein, born on this day in 1923! His monumental sculpture, “Brushstroke,” sits on our plaza, facing the National Mall. Lichtenstein, who emerged with Robert Indiana, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol and others in the early 1960s, contributed to the development of American Pop art with his paintings of comic-book action and melodramatic scenes. The artist began creating large-scale sculptures of painted aluminum in the 1980s, the model for “Brushstroke” was completed in 1996. The artist attended to every detail of its future realization before his death, making it one of the last examples of Lichtenstein’s ongoing engagement with the brushstroke motif. -- source link
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