{"id":1020,"date":"2013-06-06T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T00:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/brushstroke\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T03:32:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T11:32:41","slug":"brushstroke","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/brushstroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstroke"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taking the ideological cluster of gesture, authenticity and originality as his foil, in the mid-1960s, artist Roy Lichtenstein caricatured the abstract expressionistic brush-stroke in a cartoon style with a background comprised of Ben-Day dots \u2013 a commercial printing technique used by newspapers to reproduce cartoons. Paradoxically, he initially mocked this eviscerated but iconic signifier in a series of unique paintings, only later reproducing them as serigraphs.<\/p>\n

Prior to producing his first Brushstrokes<\/em> work, Lichtenstein spun his upcoming work as a “satirical send-up of Abstract Expressionism” by saying: “I’m thinking now of doing something on Abstract Expressionism…The problem there will be to paint a brush stroke, a picture of a brush stroke…Purposely dripped paint and things, you know, where the drips are actually drawn drips that look like drops of water drawn by a commercial artist.”[1]<\/p>\n

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As Diane Waldman has noted, the source for the first Brushstrokes work was a comic strip:\u00a0 Dick Giordano’s Strange Suspense Stories<\/em> 72 (October 1964) published by Charlton Comics.<\/p>\n

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Digital progeny of Lichtenstein’s Brushstroke\u00a0<\/em>might include Roman Verostko’s Limited Edition: George Boole\u2019s \u201cDerivation of the Laws\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 (1990, below) This work includes an expressionistic brushstroke in the style of Asian sumi painting executed by a computer-controlled robotic arm.<\/p>\n

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[1] http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brushstrokes<\/p>\n

[2] Diane Waldman, “Brushstrokes, 1965\u201366”. Roy Lichtenstein<\/em>. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1994,\u00a0 p. 151.<\/p>\n

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