Roy’s Centennial….

Roy Lichtenstein Centennial is being held in Vienna’s Albertina Museum as part of an exhibition amongst other diverse exhibitions in the same museum.
Roy Fox Lichtenstein, born on 27. Oct.1923, in Manhattan, New York, died on 29. Sep.1997 in New York University Medical Centre.
Dots that are painting images which can be viewed as photographs shot on high grain negatives and printed on sandy photographic papers.
They bear dialogues like the silent movie's bubbles telling the contents of the films and here like:” I know how you must feel Brad”, and as such illustrations of the comics and the newspaper’s ads.
He developed his own technique based on that of Benjamin Day’s called:” Benday Dots”, which Benjamin used for industrial illustrations and Roy applied this technique for connecting the art to consumption society.
Using the imagination, they tend to build themselves on celluloids and the canvases become projectable motion pictures on a silver screen without leaving the canvases.

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