Roy Lichtenstein: Landscapes

When we hear the name Roy Lichtenstein, the Pop Art movement often comes to mind. The artist's colorful, comic style pieces, such as Whaam!, Drowning Girl and Crying Girl are so iconic that they changed the imagery associated with Pop Art and influenced many other artists.

However, towards the end of the 1960s, Lichtenstein began to paint completely different themes. Far from blonde women crying or on the phone, Lichtenstein tried his hand at painting landscapes. He painted skies with cottony clouds, vast expanses of ocean and glowing suns... However, Lichtenstein did not lose his iconic Pop Art style: Ben-Day dots, black outlines and bright, vivid colors are still at the heart of his creation.

He created his first series of prints exclusively on this theme, entitled Ten Landscapes, which paved the way for his future landscapes, featuring pop graphics, a comic book style, and elements of postcards. He was also interested in Chinese landscape paintings, traditionally created using ink-soaked brushes to give a dreamy, ethereal atmosphere. But, true to form, he reinterprets them in his own style, within his series Landscapes in the Chinese Style, produced in the 1990s. On the subject of this series he said: "I'm not seriously doing some kind of Zen salute to the beauty of nature. It's really meant to look like a printed version."

Browse Artsper's selection of dotted, mechanical landscapes created by Pop Art genius Roy Lichtenstein!