"Think of it as a comic-book swoosh brought to life at skyscraper scale, a piece that looks like it might zip away if you blink too hard. Lichtenstein spent his career poking fun at the very idea of artistic drama, famously lifting the language of comics, advertising and mass media into the realm of fine art. Here, he takes the primal "heroic" swipe of the paintbrush that Abstract Expressionists worshipped and flips it into something cheeky, polished and impossible to ignore."
"Instead of sagely oil on canvas, you get a powder-blue aluminum arc streaked with emerald, yellow and white. Instead of tortured-genius brushwork, you get a playful whoosh of color and contour that seems to hover in mid-air, equal parts sculpture, cartoon and visual prank. This version of Brushstrokes echoes the paintings he started in the 1960s, when pop art was rattling the art world"
Roy Lichtenstein's monumental Brushstrokes sculpture is installed outside 3 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan and is free to view for a limited time through November. The piece transforms a heroic Abstract Expressionist paint swipe into a powder-blue aluminum arc streaked with emerald, yellow and white, combining sculpture, cartoon and visual prank. The work reflects Lichtenstein's practice of lifting the language of comics, advertising and mass media into fine art and echoes his 1960s paintings. Lichtenstein was a lifelong New Yorker, trained at the Art Students League. The sculpture gestures toward the city's skyline and will head to auction after the public display.
Read at Time Out New York
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