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character. His color change makes the work more dynamic and the subject more idealized. He also makes the landscape background more robust. Lichtenstein stated that the name Brad sounded heroic to him and was used with the aim of clichéd oversimplification. The work presents an "...unmistakeable acknowledgement to the flamboyant linearism of
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is considered an ironic depiction of emotional expression. The work is a three-quarter-length, single image of a lovelorn girl. This is one of Lichtenstein's post-1963 comics-based women that "...look hard, crisp, brittle, and uniformly modish in appearance, as if they all came out of the same pot of
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dirty yellow to brilliant gold in the hair), thus further idealising the ideal girl of the comics; he intensifies the range and contrast of values; makes the flabby landscape background into a jagged expressive pattern; transforms the vague rocket-like shape on the left into a neat vertical column...
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Eliminating inessentials, he dispenses with finger-nails and forearm muscle indications, cuts the number of lines throughout and more tellingly states and varies their curved or angular character. He changes the colours and gives them more force (from a dull red to a bright blue in the dress, from
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Johnson notes how Lichtenstein transforms the comic inspiration not only by enlarging the scale, but he also by eliminating non-essential details such as fingernails and traces of forearm musculature. In addition, by varying and reducing the number of lines he presents a better depiction of their
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wittily parody the crazy 'grace' of the pointed fingers, narrow wrist, swelling hips and breast and the flowing blonde hair of the comic. But for all the mannerism in Lichtenstein's American beauty (who numbers
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Well, I had the idea of 'The Hero' Brad. 'Brad' sounded like a hero to me, so all heroes were to be called Brad—a very minor idea, but it has to do with oversimplification and cliché.
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His paintings looked, at first glance as mechanically fashioned as their source material, although it is evident in a painting such as
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among her ancestors), the total work is a powerful, commanding painting at least as far removed from the original comic as
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Lichtenstein stated that the name Brad sounded heroic to him and was used with the aim of clichéd oversimplification.
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174 cm × 95.9 cm (68.5 in × 37.75 in)
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Roy Lichtenstein letter to Ellen H. Johnson with original source material for
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Generally, the earlier the imagery the less significant the degree of crop:
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Measuring 174 cm × 95.9 cm (68.5 in × 37.75 in),
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I Can See the Whole Room...and There's Nobody in It!
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Archer, Michael (2002). "The Real and its Objects".
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Index


Roy Lichtenstein
Movement
Pop art
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst
pop art
Roy Lichtenstein
Ben-Day dots
speech balloon
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst
Aachen
comics


Ellen H. Johnson
Ingres
Portrait of Madame Moitessier
Ellen H. Johnson
Art and Artists
Ingres
Madame Moitessier
Seurat
Chéret
Art Nouveau
1964 in art


"View In Museums – Roy Lichtenstein Foundation"
Art Since 1960
Thames & Hudson

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