The Parrish Art Museum presents Dorothy Lichtenstein, former director of the pioneering Paul Bianchini Gallery that operated in New York in the 1960s, and Donna De Salvo, Senior Adjunct Curator, Dia Art Foundation, in the talk “Roy Lichtenstein and Pop Art: Before & After the Dots.” The program is offered onsite and livestreamed at 3 PM on Saturday, October 23, the closing weekend of Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960, on view at the Museum.
Dorothy Lichtenstein, who worked closely with many of the Pop artists of that era, and De Salvo, Curator of Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-1962, will discuss the legendary artist and pivotal period in art in the United States.
Roy Lichtenstein was one of the progenitors of Pop Art. His work in the 1950s reveals much about the preoccupations of a younger generation of artists in the post-war U.S. as they attempted to work their way through and out of the shadows of Abstract Expressionism.
Lichtenstein’s wide-ranging explorations of subject matter and form would lead to his groundbreaking Pop paintings, first shown in New York in 1962, ushering in a new attitude towards art from which there was no turning back.
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