About this artwork
In this print, Lichtenstein returned to the kind of imagery he had first used in the 1960s. He never made a painting of its subject – instead, it is the type of image Lichtenstein might have made twenty-five years earlier, now seen through a printed frame, complete with representations of reflections on its glazing. Perhaps to strengthen this idea, Lichtenstein has maintained his characteristic Pop Art palette of primary colours (red, yellow, blue) for the image of the war scene, only introducing orange and green into the images of reflections. The war scene is from a comic book about the Second World War entitled ‘Our Army at War’, from February 1964.
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artist:Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997) American
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title:Reflections on Crash
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date created:1990
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materials:Lithograph, screenprint on paper and metalised PVC on paper
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measurements:150.20 x 190.50 cm
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object type:
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credit line:ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Lent by The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Collection 2015
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accession number:AL00368
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Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
New York artist Lichtenstein began making paintings inspired by consumer culture as a reaction against the emotional involvement of Abstract Expressionism. He was inspired by comic-strip illustrations, which he enlarged. Although his works may look as if they are made by a machine, Lichtenstein...