Roy Lichtenstein’s comic heroines series
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Roy Lichtenstein’s comic heroines series is a group of Pop Art paintings from the 1960s that depict melodramatic, emotionally charged female figures appropriated from romance and war comic strips, rendered in his signature Ben-Day dot style.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Pop Art
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art series ⓘ painting series ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
Ben-Day dots
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bold black outlines ⓘ limited color palette ⓘ mechanical reproduction aesthetic ⓘ |
| basedOn |
romance comic strips
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war comic strips ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
blue
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primary colors ⓘ red ⓘ yellow ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Roy Lichtenstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| critiques |
mass media representation of women
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sentimental romance narratives ⓘ |
| depicts |
crying women
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emotionally charged female figures ⓘ romantic melodrama ⓘ wartime anxiety ⓘ women in peril ⓘ |
| explores |
consumer culture
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gender stereotypes ⓘ mass culture ⓘ |
| genre | Pop Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Crying Girl
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Drowning Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ Hopeless NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Car NERFINISHED ⓘ Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But... NERFINISHED ⓘ Whaam! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1960s ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
American comic books
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commercial printing techniques ⓘ |
| languageOfText | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
emotional conflict
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heroines ⓘ melodrama ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ women ⓘ |
| movement | Pop Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
appropriation of comic-book imagery
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elevation of low culture to high art ⓘ iconic images of distressed women ⓘ use of speech balloons and captions ⓘ |
| period | 1960s Pop Art ⓘ |
| technique |
oil paint on canvas
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use of stenciled Ben-Day dots ⓘ |
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