Roy Lichtenstein Water Lilies Series For Sale

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    Roy Lichtenstein Water Lilies Series

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    Catalogue Title  Water Lilies Series
    Year 1992
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  • Roy Lichtenstein Water Lilies Series

    "When I did paintings based on Monet, I realised everyone would think that Monet was someone I could never do because his work has no outlines and it’s so Impressionistic. It’s laden with incredible nuance and a sense of the different times of day and it’s just completely different from my art. So, I don’t know, I smiled at the idea of making a mechanical Monet." - Roy Lichtenstein

     

    Lichtenstein’s Water Lilies series was produced at the end of his career in 1992, just 6 years before his death and by this stage he had evolved his techniques so extensively, even creating larger architectural works, his canon of work was considered part of art history.  His widely acclaimed Water Lilies series pays homage to one of his main influences, Claude Monet’s original work, translating his famous impressionist style through the prism of pop art.
    The Water Lilies series comprises six screen prints on stainless steel: largely also influenced by Monet’s Nympheas masterpiece, the works distil Monet’s famed floral subjects into the most essential pictorial elements, celebrating them with exaggerated contours, solid bands of saturated colour and a fusion of bold stripes and ben day dots. 
    Within this series, Lichtenstein not only references old masters and impressionist styles, but also the 19th Century Japanese woodcut tradition of Hokusai and Hiroshige, which also influenced Monet. The series elevates pop art as an art form with Lichtenstein’s signature wry humour instilled in each print. And by focusing on the ephemeral and transient nature of Monet’s water lilies, such a contrast to his early graphic work, arguably Lichtenstein is reflecting on the nature of his own artistic oeuvre in this series, created in his final years. From flat surfaces, illusions of depth and texture, and his signature patterns, Lichtenstein offers fresh perspective on the water lily through this small edition of works on metal, where the light and colours are at constant interplay with one another. 
     
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