The second in Roy Lichtenstein’s Surrealist series, At the Beach imbues a surrealist scene of dreamlike elements with the Pop artist’s signature motifs of bold primary colours, patterns and graphic art.
The dreamlike scene features what appears to be a sunbathing figure, sprawled out on the beach, her long jelly-like limbs seemingly melting. One eye looks sleepily at the viewer, beneath a mane of wavy golden hair, reminiscent of Roy Lichtenstein’s cartoon-style heroines. One of her hands cradles a spilt glass of wine, whilst a bucket stands beside her feet. The bright blue of the liquid in the glass, coupled with the yellow starfish adds a pop of colour against the repetition of the monochrome black and white lines which form part of her body, and give the overall print a dizzying effect, heightening the surreal nature.
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Vesuvius is a single screenprint executed in 1985 of the Italian Volcano situated on the Gulf of Naples. Dramatic, explosive and chaotic, this image is a reminder of Warhol’s strong capacity for landscapes and the natural world despite being known primarily as a portrait painter. The work was published by the Fondazione Amelio in Naples, and forms a corpus of Neapolitan-inspired works for an exhibition at the Museo di Capodimonte.
In keeping with the volcano’s many eruptions, Warhol’s Vesuvius glows a deep red. Further red and black lines traverse the landscape, billowing smoke. The fear and threat to life from the volcano’s eruption is arguably the emotional pull for the artist, who had depicted electric chairs and car crashes in his morbid Death and Disaster series. For Warhol, one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world also contained the same essence of impending doom: ‘I realised that everything I was doing must have been death.’
David Hockney View on Hotel Well II
View of Hotel Well II by David Hockney is the second part of a three-part print sequence that focuses on the interior of the Hotel Acatlan, a remote Mexican City hotel, that provided the stimuli for multiple prints in Hockney’s pioneering Moving Focus Series. Hockney takes the signature features of the Hotel which he introduced in Hotel Acatlan (First Day, Second Day, Two Weeks Later), including a blood red paved floor, a sweeping portico suspended by blue wooden pillars, leafy green grassland and cacti plants, visible in the distance. However, in line with the Moving Focus Series, in which he explored new print techniques to convey sense of movement, spatiality and perspective, View of Hotel Well II distorts the viewer’s gaze of this interior space. Hockney uses a bird’s eye view of the hotel courtyard, he creates a reverse style perspective, where the viewer feels like they are in motion looking onto this distorted courtyard scene, a style that relates back to his famous photo collages. Notably, Hockney had just had a hearing aid fitted when he made this sequence, he later commented, ‘I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can’t hear, you somehow see.’ Hockney’s experiments with perspective relates back to the artist’s long term passion for Picasso and his use of cubist techniques, whilst the vibrant colours in View of Hotel Well I, give the image timeless dynamism.
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