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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
Roy Lichtenstein
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Roy Lichtenstein
Age: 73 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 27
Died: 1997
Died: September 29
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won't be American it will be universal.
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Outside is the world it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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I'm never drawing the object itself I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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