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This period, with its very uneven level of work, looks like a time of strain thought Mrs. The Modern Paintings , begun in , despite their iconographical expansion, are a prolongation of his set form, a linear structure with color added. The wit of the early pieces in the series was lost as work progressed; the paintings become heavy and ornate themselves and not just double takes on heavy ornament.
These works have not quite been accepted, perhaps because of their shared authorship, but it is a fact that they are the best work he has done for some years. In them he is dealing seriously with color in the absence of line and really extending his wit into a new area. What is sensuous and momentary in Monet becomes quantified as color separations.
The dots fall in the zigzagging interstices of the facade. The dots are large, as firm and clear as drops of mercury, though where the superimposed screens overlap they generate splintered star forms. In a way, the pictures are like a neo-lmpressionist revision of Monet, done not by Seurat but by Signac with his large, blunt pointillism.
The mirrors, like the Monet paraphrases, stress screens of dots rather than outline drawing, but in terms of gradation rather than overlapping and tonally rather than coloristically. These studies of highlights are physically unconvincing but conceptually exact, in that a known convention for reflections is being employed as much for its artificiality as for its likeness to a visual phenomenon. It is another discredited area. Although he has returned to drawing in this series, it is without the fullness of incident that marked his early linearism.
Instead of an art based on boundaries Lichtenstein has moved to an art predicated on surface and allover or continuous animation. Hence my strong expectation that it is in the area of color that his immediate future may lie. The chronological thrust of his art as a whole, from crowded to spare, from tangled to empty, which is caricatured by my choice of illustrations in the present article, supports this view of his development.
The production of the book is subject to a Lichtensteinean irony. It was printed in Italy and appears to have been begun as a book of reproductions to be printed in line blocks, each block delivering one color without tonal gradation. At some point, the Italian printer seems to have mended his ways, partly. From being a cheap and cheerful picture book of line blocks it became a sophisticated picture book of line blocks, and as a matter of fact, the effect is not bad.
In using classic war imagery, Lichtenstein can reach out to a specific audience. He reaches out to the audience that feels passionately about war. Through this work, he also brings to mind issues relating to war heroes and the dangers they overcome. To deliver this message, the painter relies on the incredible range and depth of color. Here, the most noticeable colors include red, yellow, and black.
The color brings out the explosion vividly too. That word represents the explosive sound the plane produces. Therefore, the audience is left to wonder whether the pilot survived the explosion. Did he eject himself out of the burning, exploding aircraft successfully? In this painting, he makes the plane and the explosion the central focus.
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