Look Mickey

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Look Mickey is a 1961 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that adapts a Disney comic-book scene into a bold, Ben-Day dot–style canvas often seen as a breakthrough in his signature style.

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Look Mickey canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf painting
pop art work
artForm painting on canvas
artisticStyle Ben-Day dots
bold primary colors
comic-strip style
basedOn Disney comic book
Donald Duck
surface form: Donald Duck comic
colorPalette black
blue
red
white
yellow
copyrightHolder Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Roy Lichtenstein
depicts Donald Duck
Mickey Mouse
fishing scene
pier
water reflection
depictsCharacterCreatedBy Ub Iwerks
Walt Disney
describedBySource art history scholarship
genre Pop art
hasEffectOn established Lichtenstein’s signature comic-strip style
hasPart large flat color areas
speech balloon
thought balloon
inception 1961
influencedBy comic strips
commercial printing techniques
mass media imagery
languageOfWork none
mainSubject Donald Duck
Mickey Mouse
materialUsed magna paint
oil paint
movement Pop art
notableFor appropriation of comic-book imagery
considered a breakthrough in Roy Lichtenstein’s style
early use of Ben-Day dots in Lichtenstein’s work
humorous depiction of visual misperception
partOf early pop art period of Roy Lichtenstein
usedTechnique cropping of comic source image
heavy black outlines
mechanical-looking dot patterns

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Roy Lichtenstein notableWork Look Mickey
Lichtenstein notableWork Look Mickey
subject surface form: Roy Lichtenstein