I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
ROY LICHTENSTEINOutside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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