Bull Heads I

Roy Lichtenstein

1973

Color lithograph, screenprint, linocut

Dallas Museum of Art

Roy Lichtenstein was one of the artists who rose to prominence as part of the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. Lichtenstein's familiar comic strip adaptations wryly commented on the influence that the burgeoning consumer culture exerted on the lives of Americans in the 1950's and 60s. Reacting against Abstract Expressionist paintings by Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and Robert Motherwell, Lichtenstein created work that was slick, mass-produced in feel, and disruptive of the line that divided high art from low. In this series of prints, Lichtenstein is seen re-creating the process of cubist abstraction in his typically sly