"Stepping Out"

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This essay offers a personal observation of the work of art entitled "Stepping Out" by Roy Lichtenstein. History and installation at the Metropolitan Museum, as well as biographical information on Lichtenstein are presented. Personal feelings and thoughts about style, composition, treatment, pictorial space, lighting, color, brushwork, thematic content, emotional response and the process of benday dots are offered and discussed from observation and supported by source material. A copy of the artwork is included.

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"Lichtenstein's best known comic-strip paintings, such as Eddie Diptych (1962), Girl At Piano, (1963), and Good Morning, Darling (1964), are blowups of original cartoon characters, reproduced by hand, using the benday dot technique and the bright primary colors employed in printing. Lichtenstein's later works, including Stepping Out, show the influence of Matisse and Picasso as cubism allows him to add a further evolutionary contribution to Pop Art. Lichtenstein's paintings depicting soap opera drama and comic strip hyper-emotionalism comment ironically on the culture they mirror. As Pop Art, Lichtenstein's work not only analyses his media haunted culture, but adds to the sick syndrome of human kind molded by mass media, controlled, even emotionally by ads, magazines, and television. Through his paintings Lichtenstein is showing how, like robots, as modern humans, we have no true feelings of our own, but are created by the media. In 1993 Lichtenstein was honored with a retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City."

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