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“Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960” shows early works by the celebrated American artist, who spent his formative years at Ohio State.
Appropriated from a book he enjoyed reading to his kids, Roy Lichtenstein’s 1961 painting Look Mickey shows Mickey Mouse stifling a laugh as Donald Duck pulls on a fishing line stuck through his ...
In life, Roy Lichtenstein was one of the biggest names in pop art. Now, more than a decade after his death, his paintings still get double takes. Here's Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours": Whimsical ...
“Smiling wryly,” as Price put it, Lichtenstein reached into a storage closet and withdrew “Look Mickey,” the oil painting of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck that is regarded as both ...
“Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960” continues through June 5 at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, until 9 p.m ...
Lichtenstein was a 37-year-old Rutgers art professor when he made his first Pop painting — Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse fishing off a pier. Adapted from a children’s book illustration, it was ...
Similar themes come to light in another of Lichtenstein’s most enduring works, Look Mickey (1961), a faux-comic book page showing Walt Disney icons Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck standing on a ...
If you’re going to the new Roy Lichtenstein retrospective opening May 22 at the Art Institute of Chicago, do this: Stop at the giant display graphic that serves as the show’s entrance and turn ...
His resultant painting, titled “Look Mickey,” represents “the first time Roy Lichtenstein directly transposed a scene and a style from a source of popular culture, the 1960 children’s book ...