Perspective | Roy Lichtenstein adopted comic book visuals to paint this story from Genesis
This Roy Lichtenstein painting may look superficial and silly. But I’ve given it a minute and think it’s underwritten by some deep theological thinking. I’ve filed it, consequently, in the same part of my brain as Britney Spears’s “Oops!...I Did it Again.”
I’ll explain. But first look at what the painting (which is at the Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles) actually shows — and how it shows it.
Rendered as a frame from a comic strip, Lichtenstein’s painting is composed of evenly spaced Ben-Day dots and unbroken areas of flat color divided by black lines of varying thickness.
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