Still Life With Picasso
Still Life With Picasso
Signed Print
Roy Lichtenstein
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76 x 56cm, Edition of 90, Screenprint
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Being a central player of Pop Art, Roy Lichtenstein’s Still Life with Picasso of 1973 is bursting with stylised and brightly coloured elements. This screen print originated as a contribution to a collective portfolio titled Homage to Picasso. The publication contains works by countless contemporary artists and honours the life and artistic heritage of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso.
Putting his best foot forward, Lichtenstein supplies the print with his commercial style Ben-Day dots and primary blocks of colour, in order to deliver a vivid cartoon impression. Still Life with Picasso presents a varied and unpolished composition. Mimicking the simplistic drawing style of Picasso, a woman figure peers into the frame from the right, captured in thick black curving lines set against a white backdrop.
Selected pieces of fruit sit in the bottom left corner of the canvas. A jug holding paint brushes is situated towards the upper left margin, adorned by black and dark blue dots. Red and yellow stripes of colour pour into view from above. Lichtenstein’s Still Life with Picasso skillfully integrates the mechanical properties of screen prints with painterly gestures abstracted from art history. Moreover, he also initiates a playful, if unreconciled, conversation between his own art and Picasso’s life work.