Roy Lichtenstein Brushstrokes (C.46) 1967 For Sale

  • ROY LICHTENSTEIN BRUSHSTROKES FOR SALE

     

     

    Roy Lichtenstein Brushstrokes

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    Catalogue Title Brushstrokes
    Year 1967
    Size Sheet: 23 x 31 in. (58.5 x 98.8 cm)
    Medium Screenprint on off-white wove paper
    Edition

    Edition of 300; plus unknown number of AP (inscribed [A/P])
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  • Roy Lichtenstein Brushstrokes (Corlett 46)

    "In contrast to the single, more controlled brushstroke featured in Lichtenstein's singularly titled Brushstroke, made two years earlier in 1965, this later work in 1967 feels freer and more fluid with its loose collision of multiple strokes in contrasting colours".

    Roy Lichtenstein’s screenprint Brushstrokes was made in 1967. From an edition of 300, the image was designed for the Pasadena Art Museum's 1967 Lichtenstein exhibition and also produced as a poster. 

    Five interlacing brushstrokes are defined by Lichtenstein’s signature bold black outline that depicts the grooves of the glooping paint applied through a feathered brush. The repetitive symmetry of the precisely placed blue Benday dots in the background contrasts with the freer, more impulsive and chaotic brushstrokes, perhaps indicating the dynamism of the artist’s hand in conjunction with the repetitive process and effect of the printing press. The rigidity of the parallel Benday dots gives a static stillness to the background, whilst the painterly brushstrokes invite motion and movement. 

    The recurring presence of primary colours to imitate printers’ ink makes the palette of the print feel familiar, whilst the contrast of the colours adds energy and depth. It is interesting that the central two swathes of brushstrokes are left a neutral white, as though the viewer can imagine their own colour. 

    In contrast to the single, more controlled brushstroke featured in Lichtenstein's singularly titled Brushstroke, made two years earlier in 1965, this later work in 1967 feels freer and more fluid with its loose collision of multiple strokes in contrasting colours. In 1965-6, Lichtenstein made a series of paintings of enlarged, blown up brushstrokes which were a visual commentary on the brushwork of Abstract Expressionism. His intentionally ironic use of screenprinting - more commonly associated with advertising - to depict a painted brushstroke depersonalises the man-made, rather than machine-made, medium.

  • Roy Lichtenstein Brushstrokes

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