“Girl with Ball” is a pop art painting created by the American artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1961. She is painted in oil on canvas. Measuring 153 by 91.9 cm, the work is now in the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art , and earlier for several decades it was owned by the architect Philip Johnson . The source for the picture was an advertisement in a newspaper.
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The Girl with the Ball was shown at Liechtenstein's first solo exhibition and was featured in a review of her published in Newsweek .
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History
The source for The Girl with the Ball was the 1961 ad for the casino and Mount Airy Lodge hotel in the Pocono Mountains [1] . The advertisement, which began to work in 1955, was widely published in the New York metropolitan area and other regions, including several well-known newspapers such as The New York Times and Daily News [2] . She was still published in newspapers more than twenty years after Liechtenstein created his “Girl with the Ball” [3] .
According to the Liechtenstein Foundation, in the fall of 1961, Allan Kaprow , a professor at Rutgers University, introduced Liechtenstein to the director of the Gallery, Leo Castelli, Ivan Karp . Liechtenstein showed Karp several of his paintings, including The Girl with the Ball, which intrigued Karp. A few weeks later, he agreed to represent Liechtenstein. After showing this painting to Andy Warhol, Karp sold it to architect Philip Johnson in November of that year. “The Girl with the Ball” was featured in a review of the Liechtenstein art exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery, published in Newsweek in 1962 [4] . She also appeared on April 3, 1963, on the show “Here comes the easel” ( Eng. Pop! Goes the Easel ) at the Museum of Modern Art in Houston along with other works by Liechtenstein: “ Brattata ” (1962) and “ Head - Red and Yellow "(1962) [5] .
Description
The painting “Girl with a Ball” depicts a woman in a bathing suit holding a beach ball with red stripes of the same color as her lips and tongue [3] . Liechtenstein used the technique of comic book artists to create his own example of nostalgic photography, which led to the simplification of a work of art from the standpoint of its own appeal. When creating the picture, the artist used the technique of points Ben-Day primary colors . The “Girls with the Ball” style was described as an exaggeration of the “limitations of mechanical reproduction,” aimed at depriving a shine in a striking and intense form compared to a photograph. For 1961, this picture was considered innovative [6] . Facial features, such as nose and mouth, are depicted using a “commercial symbol” [7] .
Lichtenstein’s processing of the original is estimated as “abstraction by subtraction”, in which all the features of the original are reduced to simple graphic elements [8] . The artist changed the planar position of the subject of the image to place it “closer to the image plane”. He painted a picture more distorted than one would expect from a cartoonist, increasing and focusing on its two-dimensionality [9] .
Notes
- ↑ Illustrations (numbers 220 & 221) // Modern Art and Popular Culture: Readings in High & Low / Varnedoe, Kirk and Adam Gopink. - New York Museum of Modern Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. , 1990. - ISBN 0-8109-2466-8 .
- ↑ Waldman. Comic Strips and Advertising Images. - P. 55.
- ↑ 1 2 Alloway, Lawrence. Roy Lichtenstein. - Abbeville Press , 1983. - P. 17-18. - ISBN 0-89659-331-2 .
- ↑ Chronology . Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. Date of treatment September 9, 2019. Archived May 7, 2012.
- ↑ Pop Art: An International Perspective / Livingstone, Marco. - Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1991. - P. 37. - ISBN 0-8478-1475-0 .
- ↑ The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights. - New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004 .-- P. 238.
- ↑ Roy Lichtenstein: Classic of the New / Schneider, Eckhard. - Kunsthaus Bregenz , 2005 .-- P. 139. - ISBN 3-88375-965-1 .
- ↑ Coplans, p. 176.
- ↑ Waldman, Diane. Comic Strips and Advertising Images // Roy Lichtenstein. - The Solomon Guggenheim Museum , 1993. - P. 49–55. - ISBN 0-89207-108-7 .
Literature
- On Lichtenstein // Roy Lichtenstein / Coplans, John . - Greenwood Publishing Group , 1972.
- Waldman, Diane. Comic Strips and Advertising Images // Roy Lichtenstein. - The Solomon Guggenheim Museum , 1993. - ISBN 0-89207-108-7 .