Roy lichtenstein nude. Roy Lichtenstein: from heresy to visionary. In November 2011, Roy Lichtenstein's 1961 I Can See the Whole Room … and There's Nobody in It!
Was sold by Christie's for $43.2 million. The painting depicts a large back square, out of which a circle has been cut. From behind the circle peers the face of a jutting-jawed comic-strip man, illuminated by a bright background of yellow. The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. Stunning new Roy Lichtenstein retrospective is a journey through his preoccupations. The fun comes, she says, in trying to “unpick the riddle” and in this context the revelation that Lichtenstein was never a fan of comics or cartoonists is less surprising than it might otherwise have been.
His obsession is not with this or that kind of imagery, but rather the whole hierarchy whereby some images are accorded so much more value and significance than others. The key to understanding this artist, says co curator James Rondeau is to see Lichtenstein’s redirection towards pop art from abstract expressionism as a move rooted in pragmatism, which then developed into a fully fledged philosophy. “He thought I cannot deliver a la Pollock so here’s this product that contains this emotionalism. The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. Lichtenstein: A Retrospective.