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Girl with Ball is a 1961 painting by Roy Lichtenstein. It is an oil on canvas Pop art work that is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, after being owned for several decades by Philip Johnson.
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1961. Lichtenstein took the image for Girl with Ball straight from an advertisement for a hotel in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. In pirating it, however, he transformed the photographic image, using a painter's version of the techniques of the comic-strip artist.
The girl's round mouth is more doll-like than female; any sex appeal she had has become as plastic as her beach ball. Roy Lichtenstein appropriated the image of a girl tossing a beach ball in the air from an advertisement in The New York Times promoting a resort called Mount Airy Lodge.
10 de feb. de 2024 · Created in 1961, this iconic painting serves as a representation of Lichtenstein's signature style and his ability to transform everyday objects into subjects of artistic contemplation.At first glance, the painting appears to be a simple portrayal of a young girl holding a ball.
Lichtenstein later recalled that 1961, the year he completed Girl with Ball, marked a break with both his own abstract style and “prevailing taste” in the art world.
17 de mar. de 2015 · Girl with Ball is a 1961 oil on canvas painting. Girl with Ball was inspired by a 1961 advertisement for the Mount Airy Lodge in the Pocono Mountains. Girl with Ball depicts a woman wearing a bathing suit holding a beach ball with red stripes in the same color as her lips and tongue.Lichtenstein used a painter’s version of comic ...
Visit New York and see Portrait of the Girl with Ball by Roy Lichtenstein at The Museum of Modern Art. Girl with Ball was inspired by a 1961 advertisement for the Mount Airy Lodge in...
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