| Artist: | Lichtenstein, Roy |
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| Title: | Sinking Sun | |
| Date: | 1964 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | Pop Art | |
| Movement: | Pop Art | |
| Materials: | oil & acrylic paint on canvas | |
| Subject: the coded landscape; the natural made cultural; nature at a remove, this is an image aboutimages; highly stylized nature; the degraded Sublime; the ben day dots look like smog particles. Style: simulates a mechanical process of image reproduction to show our distancing from thenature and the Sublime; de-personalized,anti-painterly and anti-subjective. Context: age of mass media and mechanical reproduction; loss of the Sublime; everything experienced through reproduction; hyped up colors;light no longer a spiritual vehicle of inner illumination; the sacred and the profane in an increasingly secularized world. | ||
