Crying woman
Print
1963 (published)
1963 (published)
| Artist/Maker |
Lichtenstein famously used the formula of the Ben Day dot, a method of colouring printed illustrations by overlaying small coloured dots in regular formations to produce colour and tonal variation. This was a formula used to produce colour illustrations in cheap popular comics and magazines, and in advertising and packaging. Lichtenstein appropriated and enlarged the pattern to create images which appear to both parody and celebrate contemporary life, industrial and consumer culture.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Crying woman (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | Roy Lichtenstein: Crying woman. 1963. Lithograph |
| Dimensions |
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| Style | |
| Copy number | unlimited edition |
| Marks and inscriptions | Lichtenstein (signed in pencil) |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | Lichtenstein famously used the formula of the Ben Day dot, a method of colouring printed illustrations by overlaying small coloured dots in regular formations to produce colour and tonal variation. This was a formula used to produce colour illustrations in cheap popular comics and magazines, and in advertising and packaging. Lichtenstein appropriated and enlarged the pattern to create images which appear to both parody and celebrate contemporary life, industrial and consumer culture. |
| Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1964 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.366-1964 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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