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Art: Tate Modern: Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
Thursday 14th March 2013 | sana
Tate Modern is holding an exhibition for Roy Lichtenstein called “ Lichtenstein: A Retrospective”. Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was an American Pop artist; he did painting, lithography and sculptures. Born in the urban New York City was the first person to have a one-man exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery in New York (1951). His style was to pain in a non-figurative and Abstract Expressionism (1957-1961) but began to incorporate roughly handled cartoon images, using Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in his paintings. He made a breakthrough into characteristic work in 1961 when he began to paint pictures based on comic strip images, using his art to advertise imagery and overt adaptations of other artist’s work. In addition to this, he did classical ruins, paintings of canvas backs or stretchers, made land, sea, sky and moonscapes. In 1964 he started incorporating plastics and enameled metals.
The exhibition will run from February 21 to May 27, 2013.
Tickets are £14 and concessions are available.
Open until 8pm on Sundays, with last ticket sale at 7pm.
For further information and ticket booking go to: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/lichtenstein
