View From The Window
View From The Window
Signed Print
Roy Lichtenstein
£60,000-£90,000
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194 x 78cm, Edition of 60, Planographic print
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Meaning & Analysis
Roy Lichtenstein revisited the landscape motif numerous times throughout his career. His vast Landscapes, Moonscapes and Seascapes comprise several individual series of prints. View from the Window from 1985 belongs to the painterly Landscapes suites. The print mainly appropriates the formal attributes of landscape painting. However, it also imitates brushstrokes, thereby critiquing the idealised brushwork of the abstract expressionists.
View from the Windowshows a balcony featuring cursive iron railings and potted plants. The work reveals poignant details composed of intersecting pastel-toned and primary coloured brushstrokes. The view we see through the frame is overlooking a riverside, with figures wandering along the embankment. The vivid hand-painted sweeps within this portrait interact energetically with the mechanical aspects of the artist’s own style. Consequently, the layout of the print becomes similarly abstracted as Lichtenstein’s Brushstroke Faces and Seven Apple Woodcuts.
The stylised brushstroke variations capture the essence of an everyday scene. Translated into the conventional language of the landscape genre, the imitations appear instinctive and integrated. While Lichtenstein’s simulated painterly gestures symbolise shifting light and nature in motion, the detached cartoon elements produce spatial ambiguities. These strokes seem to have been cut out and pasted on, drawing attention to the surface texture of the work.