Drowning Girl Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997) 1963. Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 67 5/8 x 66 3/4″ (171.6 x 169.5 cm)
“Roy Lichtenstein grounded his inventive career in imitation, beginning by appropriating images from advertisements and comic books in the early 1960s. The source for his painting, Drowning Girl, is “Run for Love!,” the melodramatic lead story of Secret Love #83, a DC Comics comic book from 1962. In the original illustration, the drowning girl’s boyfriend appears in the background, clinging to a capsized boat. Lichtenstein dramatically cropped the image, removing the boat and the boyfriend so that the girl appears alone and centered, her head circled by a vortex of water. He also shortened the first line in the dialogue balloon, which originally read ‘I don’t care if I have a cramp!’, to the more ambiguous “I don’t care!” In the second line, he changed the boyfriend’s name from ‘Mal’ to ‘Brad.’ Explaining the appeal of comic books, Lichtenstein said, ‘I was very excited about, and interested in, the highly emotional content yet detached, impersonal handling of love, hate, war, etc. in these cartoon images.’” – Moma
Run for Love!, Secret Love #83, a DC Comics 1962
Riff off was originally a jazz term meaning “to borrow and elaborate on” as opposed to rip off which is to steal. To riff off someone’s artwork is to take someone’s idea and run with it.
For today’s creative challenge, riff off of someone’s project. Go through the Instagram #30sal posts and find someone else’s artwork that inspires you to make something new. Tag us with #30sal, and tag the artist you’re borrowing from by typing @username in the description.
As soon as I saw this post by Mimi Tochia Boothby, I wanted to see it without the top section. Here is my riff on Mimi’s monopod:
For those of you who would like to do this challenge but prefer not to use social media, you can do an image search for #30sal on Google. Not all 1,116 images come up, but some!
You are invited to participate in an exquisite corpse style animal block printing project. Brian Lane of Print Zero Studios is collaborating with artists Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari for a series of printing events at the Getty Museum in LA this July and August. The project is responding to their current exhibition “Book of Beasts: …
Bee-Pin by David Dodge Lewis (1997). Vitreograph on paper, edition of 30. Photo courtesy of the Littleton Collection. Vitreography is a printmaking technique that uses a thick glass matrix instead of the traditional matrices of metal, wood or stone. Sound interesting? You can make your first vitreograph next week! VitreographyTuesdays 6-10pmStarts Sept 23REGISTER TODAY!
Yesterday I wrote about Bonnard’s sketches, and included an unkind description of his wife Marthe. “Bonnard’s wife Marthe was a difficult and neurotic woman who spent a disproportionate amount of her day in obsessive washing and bathing. Thanks to this quirk, Bonnard made many intimate figurative works.” I had read that Marthe was neurotic, difficult, …
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30SAL Challenge: Riff Off
Roy Lichtenstein
(American, 1923–1997)
1963. Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 67 5/8 x 66 3/4″ (171.6 x 169.5 cm)
“Roy Lichtenstein grounded his inventive career in imitation, beginning by appropriating images from advertisements and comic books in the early 1960s. The source for his painting, Drowning Girl, is “Run for Love!,” the melodramatic lead story of Secret Love #83, a DC Comics comic book from 1962. In the original illustration, the drowning girl’s boyfriend appears in the background, clinging to a capsized boat. Lichtenstein dramatically cropped the image, removing the boat and the boyfriend so that the girl appears alone and centered, her head circled by a vortex of water. He also shortened the first line in the dialogue balloon, which originally read ‘I don’t care if I have a cramp!’, to the more ambiguous “I don’t care!” In the second line, he changed the boyfriend’s name from ‘Mal’ to ‘Brad.’ Explaining the appeal of comic books, Lichtenstein said, ‘I was very excited about, and interested in, the highly emotional content yet detached, impersonal handling of love, hate, war, etc. in these cartoon images.’” – Moma
Riff off was originally a jazz term meaning “to borrow and elaborate on” as opposed to rip off which is to steal. To riff off someone’s artwork is to take someone’s idea and run with it.
For today’s creative challenge, riff off of someone’s project. Go through the Instagram #30sal posts and find someone else’s artwork that inspires you to make something new. Tag us with #30sal, and tag the artist you’re borrowing from by typing @username in the description.
As soon as I saw this post by Mimi Tochia Boothby, I wanted to see it without the top section. Here is my riff on Mimi’s monopod:
For those of you who would like to do this challenge but prefer not to use social media, you can do an image search for #30sal on Google. Not all 1,116 images come up, but some!
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