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Washing machine
The painting 'Washing Machine' from 1961 by Roy Lichtenstein is an example of genre painting in the Pop Art style. It depicts a fragment of a washing machine in the artist's characteristic style, including thick outlines, intense primary colors, and hand-applied Ben-Day dots that mimic mechanical printing.
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:
1961
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Execution technique:
oil on canvas
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Theme:
still life, everyday objects, mechanisms, pop art
Internal Narrative and Creative Framework
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Inner Narrative
The work comments on the cultural significance of machines and devices in everyday life, combining this theme with the aesthetics of comics and mass image reproduction.
The key to interpreting the work
When interpreting, it is worth paying attention to the dialogue between high art and mass culture as well as Lichtenstein's painting technique, which imitates comic printing.See other works by this artist
