Roy Lichtenstein - Big painting n°6 - Silkscreen - 2000
Big painting n°6 - 2000
Screen printing
68.6 × 99.1 cm / 27 × 39 in
VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2000
Reproduced from Roy Lichtenstein Large Painting No. 6 1965 Oil + Magna on canvas 233 x 328 cm
Collection Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Published by Kunstverlag Schumacher-Edition Fils Düsserdolf 2000
Printed in the Netherlands
Large Painting No. 6 (sometimes Large Painting or Large Painting VI) is a 1965 oil and Magna on canvas painting by Roy Lichtenstein.
As with all of his works, this is partly a satirical response to the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. Like most of Lichtenstein's Ben-Day works, it is a representation of mechanical reproduction through a pictorial technique. In this case, the satire comes from the graphic representation of the spontaneous movement of the painting in the smallest details.
Screen print :
Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works.
In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Roy Lichtenstein :
Born in New York in 1923, he is one of the most important artists of The American Pop Art movement, finding inspiration in advertising, popular imagery and comic strips. Woman with Flowered Hat has held the record for highest Lichtenstein auction price in May 15, 2013 (sold for $56.1 million, including fees, at Christie's). Approximatly 4500 of his works are exhibited around the world. The artist died in 1997.
