Still Life with Mirror
Still Life with Mirror
Artist
Roy Lichtenstein
(1923 - 1997)
Date1972
MediumOil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions96 1/2 x 54 in. (245.1 x 137.2 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2011.22
Signedverso: Roy Lichtenstein '72
Accession number
2011.22
On View
Not on viewLabel TextEven as he used techniques and themes lifted from the everyday world of mass-market advertising, Lichtenstein also referred frequently to the history of fine art in his work. Landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, for example, have been subjects of art since time immemorial; Lichtenstein returned to these subjects again and again.
In this work, the artist references the tradition of still life—a type of painting that shows everyday objects loaded with symbolic meaning. Typical still life subjects appear here: a fruit bowl, a cup and saucer, and a tabletop, all rendered in Lichtenstein’s flat, comic book style. The artist also includes a mirror (on the left) and a painting turned away from the viewer (on the right), both objects we often ponder for extended reflection and deeper meaning. Yet here, like his Pop art contemporaries, Lichtenstein jumbles “high art” and “pop culture,” frustrating our normal ways of seeing and asking us to look again at the world around us.
Markingsverso, on vertical crossbar: [Hayward Gallery exhibition label for Roy Lichtenstein]
verso, on vertical crossbar: [San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition label for Roy Lichtenstein: All About Art]
verso, on horizontal crossbar: [Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts exhibition label for In This Academy]
verso, on horizontal crossbar: [Leo Castelli label]
verso, on horizontal crossbar: [Galerie Daniel Templon label]
verso, on vertical crossbar: [Anthony d'Offay Gallery label]
verso, on vertical crossbar: [Louisiana Museum of Modern Art exhibition label for Roy Lichtenstein - All about Art]
