This week’s issue of The New Yorker has an ad from the Gagosian Gallery, promoting an exhibition of what appear to be abstract, rather than representational, paintings by Roy Lichtenstein.
https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2026/roy-lichtenstein-painting-with-scattered-brushstrokes/
It’s interesting the works come from the Lichtenstein family collection. Have they never before been offered for sale? They’re nothing like the so-called Pop Art paintings that made Lichtenstein famous. Those were based on comic book panels he had selected, many of them from DC titles in the romance genre.
This is a good opportunity to watch the documentary Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation. It was based largely on the research of David Barsalou, who graduated from Westfield State a year ahead of me. Our art history instructor was Barbara Harris, who is now a friend of mine.
As you can see, I can’t embed the video. If I could embed it, there would be no commercials. Sorry to say, you’re on your own.