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Crying Girl
Crying Girl is a female portrait created in the characteristic Pop Art style by Roy Lichtenstein. The painting imitates the aesthetic of comics, using thick black outlines, bold colors, and Ben-Day dots. It depicts a close-up of a girl's face expressing sadness and despair, which is a typical emotional motif in the artist's works referencing popular culture and comics.
Portrait of the Creator
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Artist
Roy Lichtenstein
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Date of birth and death
October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997
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Natinality
American
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Style
Pop art; use of comic strips, commercial and mass media aesthetics; Ben-Day dots
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Significant works
Look Mickey, Drowning Girl, Whaam!, Oh, Jeff…I Love You, Too…But…, Girl with Hair Ribbon, Brushstrokes
Information about the work
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Year:
1964
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Execution technique:
enamel on steel
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Theme:
female portrait, emotions, sadness, comics
Internal Narrative and Creative Framework
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Inner Narrative
The painting shows the drama and emotions typical for comic book characters, but through Lichtenstein's distinctive style, they are given an ironic and distancing meaning.
The key to interpreting the work
The work should be analyzed through the prism of the relationship between high art and popular culture, as well as understanding the artist's ironic approach to portraying emotions in mass-produced images.See other works by this artist
