Landscape and Character

Roy Lichtenstein: Chinese Landscapes

"Sublime simplicity with a detached "mechanical" approach... and bold, enigmatic gestural brushstrokes at the painting's horizon line... as a reflection of the artist's character."

Yale 

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Marks of Ideas

"There are certain marks, like these, that I am fond of using because they have no basis in reality, only in ideas."

Roy Lichtenstein

"Lichtenstein is a Homo Imago, a new species of “image man” whose touchstones come from mass media, from printed images and not of life."

Hal Foster

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A Sea of Mistery

Roy Lichtenstein: Dotted Seascapes

"No matter what you touch and you wish to know about, you end up in a sea of mystery. You see there's no beginning or end, you can go back as far as you want, forward as far as you want, but you never got to it, it's like the essence, it's that right, it remains. This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can't grasp it. And it's meant to be that way, do y'know. And there's where our reverence should come in. Before everything, the littlest thing as well as the greatest. The tiniest, the horseshit, as well as the angels, do y'know what I mean. It's all mystery. All impenetrable, as it were, right?"

Henry Miller

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