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THE EXHIBITION: “Roy Lichtenstein : Evolution” revealed the intermediate phase of the artist’s work process, related to his sketches, drawings and collages that end on a large choice of paintings and sculptures. The majority of the works have never been shown in France. This new exhibition goes further and seeks to reconstruct the distinct phases of the artist’s creation in its totality and evidence its evolution from his sources of inspiration to the final consequences - the completed works - revealing Lichtenstein’s incessant search among the different pathways of art. They are routes that at first appear mysterious but that are gradually revealed by the very process of creation and development in the artist’s work over a span of four decades. The works, that come mainly from private collections with documentary loans from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in New York offer for the first time complete scenarios of creation. We discover the Lichtenstein’s sources: there are popular figures from the cartoon world such as Dagwood, Tintin and Donald Duck. There are protagonists from girls’ comics like Girls’ Romances, Heart Throbs and Secret Hearts, or true classic symbols such as the Hellenistic Laocöon, landscapes by Van Gogh and Cézanne, bathers and portraits by Picasso, nudes and interiors by Matisse, Monet’s waterlilies and Brancusi’s endless column. There are also diverse themes from art history, such as the landscapes of Chinese painting, still lifes and studio models, representations of interiors - that also allude to the artist’s own interiority - and exteriors that refer to the public domain. They are references with which Lichtenstein dialogues, and to which he pays, 10
with his characteristic appropriations, particular homage, thus managing to popularize themes of high culture, integrating it with the images from mass media and opening a pathway to new readings and perspectives. In addition, the exhibition includes a film that Lichtenstein made in 1970, commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art within the framework of an arts and technology program developed between 1967 and 1971, and on which artists and advanced technology industries collaborated. With the help of Universal Film Studios, Lichtenstein conceived of, and produced, a film of marine landscapes, directly related to a series of collages with landscape themes he created between 1964 and 1966, one of which also forms a part of our display. EXHIBITION CATALOGUE 176 pages. Color. Texts : Jack Cowart, Juan Antonio Ramirez, Ruth Fine, James Pasquale, Avis Berman and Biography by Clare Bell Price : 39 euros 11
Page 2 and 3: S U M M A R Y I n t r o d u c t i o
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Page 18 and 19: SCENOGRAPHY Laurent Guinamard-Casat
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