Writes Jason Farago, in "Connecting the Dots Between Roy Lichtenstein and Today
The Whitney’s retrospective is full of jokes, but it captures our image overload with surprising tenderness. Our critic calls it 'the most momentous exhibition of the season'" (NYT).
That "sun may be setting" line has resonance because: "A remake of [Lichtenstein's] 1967 'Super Sunset Billboard' stands in front of the Whitney’s western picture window, so if you come at day’s end you can see two sunsets in one."
@charleszheng0 the greatest feat of engineering by humanity imo
♬ original sound - Charles
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So, unlike Robert Rauchenberg's work in the earlier post, this stuff is sort of art. More like graphic design that a high school or college kid could do. It is only admired because it is supposed to be admired. As a commenter pointed out, art has merit if you want to look at it twice. Lichenstein fails that test.
Amazing technology and impressive leaps of human achievement. Just 100 years ago, radio was a brand new innovation and Lindbergh had yet to cross the Atlantic.
I kinda miss The Whitney…and I just switched my carrier to T-Mobile with a plan that uses Starlink for text and data in areas with no coverage. It works!
…oh come now, artists have been admired for innovation for centuries, including new techniques for the application of paint. Just because it looks like your comic books…
…and I recall a Christies/Sotheby’s auction catalog across my desk with a three page historic about ‘Things on the Wall’ and artists throughout history depicting the back of the canvas. Lichtenstein
including
**how thickly the pigment has been lashed through a punched aluminum screen**
This writer is excited to describe screen printing. I question the verb choice, lashed. The pigment has been beat against the screen?
That's noy fast enough for high speed traders. They will lease a string of microwave towers between NYC and Chicago and speed them up by removing the switching part of it, so the path is known, so they can buy the fact of your trade and make a trade on it before your trade is executed. This is called productive capitalism. Ham radio is even faster since there is no switching or repeating involved, just encrypt/decrypt which you also have to do regardless. If they are willing to spend this kind of money to gain advantages measured in milliseconds, is it any wonder that they are willing to pay this:
"Truth Social launched a paid subscription service called Truth API on August 1, 2026, which charges up to $100,000 per month to provide high-frequency traders and financial firms millisecond-level early access to posts from President Donald Trump and other high-profile accounts" - Google AI summary
Whoa. Deep thoughts Timmy.
The linked article is behind a paywall for me.
Love the TikTok video though.
I'd rather read an essay on whether the sun really is setting on humanity. Seems a more important topic.
Thanks for the video.
…the frontrunning game is kind of played out. Was it twenty years ago now we were getting glossies from the firm that moved next door to the- was it the nyse or nasdaq trading center on long island? so they could front run quotes. The sales literature implied some kind of superior intellect black box investment strategy and had photos of two Nobel laureates and Jeremy Siegel but really all they were doing was frontrunning trades. I think it lasted a few months…
Since when (now, apparently) are "paintings" meant to be touched? The visual in visual art gets cancelled.
This reminds me of the impasto.meter Tom Wolfe illustrated in The Painted Word (1975). It was used to measure the thickness of paint applied to the surface.
I was more of a Stella guy. Roy Lichtenstein often seemed like comic relief. His need for comic book expressionism seemed like someone emotionally stunted, a la Warhol. He could hide behind those big dramatic but so cooled-out pix. Something was always missing, namely real feelings.
Stella and Lichtenstein both had problems with second and third acts in their careers. But I still love Stella's early work.
"The linked article is behind a paywall for me."
Try it now.
"This reminds me of the impasto.meter Tom Wolfe illustrated in The Painted Word (1975). It was used to measure the thickness of paint applied to the surface."
Yes, I've got that in my Kindle. The caption is: "When Flat was God. Using the impastometer."
Also in that book: "[Greenberg] no longer tried to defend Abstract Expressionism against the huge shift in taste that Pop Art represented. In fact, he offered what amounted to a piece of implied confession or, better said, self-criticism. All along, he said, there had been something old-fashioned about Abstract Expressionism, despite the many advances it brought. This old-fashioned thing was … its brushstrokes. Its brushstrokes? Yes, said Greenberg, its brushstrokes. The characteristic Abstract Expressionist brushstroke was something very obvious, very expressive, very idiosyncratic … very painterly, like the “blurred, broken, loose definition of color and contour” you find in Baroque art. It was as obvious as a skid on the highway. He termed this stroke the “Tenth Street touch.” Lichtenstein, the Pop artist, liked this notion so much, or was so amused by it, that he did a series of Brushstroke paintings, each one a blowup of a single “Tenth Street touch” brushstroke, with every swirl and overloaded driblet represented—but rendered in the hard, slick commercial-illustration unpainterly style of Pop, with no brushstrokes of his own whatsoever to be seen.""
Chuck Close – "An American painter and photographer known for creating massive, photorealistic portraits built from intricate grids of pixelated color **dots**, fingerprints, and marks."
...yes, with Lichtenstein I always go to Close, too Lem. Once achieving photorealism with pixelated dots and square Close evolved to a similar effect using miniature abstracts for pixels...
It works now. Lots of good pictures. Thanks, Professor.
"...a human perception that had to be made visible before it could be defended.
All of which makes this show far more touching than I had anticipated. Touching is a theme here (“please touch!" reads one art display). “Touch, in forms both physical and metaphorical..."
Tangible reality... exists only as there is movement
Wow, they’ve rediscovered pointillism.
Reading the article, I couldn’t help flashing to that scene in Unbreakable where Samuel L. Jackson gets a little too emphatic explaining the significance of comic book art to Bruce Willis.
Wow, that video is incredible. I only knew bits and pieces of this, it's wonderful to see and understand the achievements of humanity.
Even her warning signs have warning signs posted. She does, however, have a modicum of sexual magnetism. That will probably win out over the warning signs and the human race will continue to procreate. We're not doomed to extinction. We're doomed to carry on as before........Many hope that AI will be able to stage an extinction event and then go on to create a superior form of consciousness. That's a false hope. The human race has never been able to rid itself of rodents and cockroaches. I just don't think AI will be able to pull off an extinction event. I can, however, see why they'd like to try.
The byline "Jason Farago" leads one to expect a farrago of lies. Does he really think AI can't -- or won't soon be able -- to "connect the dots" and say what it's a picture of? I'm reminded of the Ed Koch character in "Bonfire of the Vanities" yelling "Do they think the future can't cross a bridge?"
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