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That’s bc he was a hack piece of shit. Like I can see the argument for when people talk about Warhol and his “recontextualizing” of existing things, like soup cans or Elvis, but Lichtenstein was a thief. He wasn’t “recontextualizing” shit. He took an existing drawing and made it big. Hack. Shit.

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I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.

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Dane is at Home.
@monkeyminion.com

Warhol, at least, changed the media of the items he presented. He drew, then screenprinted his soup cans, for instance. Lichtenstein took a drawing and just made a bigger (& worse executed) version. He’s a hack and his “work” should be considered a cautionary tale, but the world of “fine art” is

Dane is at Home.
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Full of people high on their own flatulence & they’ll never admit that they’ve been bamboozled so this shit gets to make millions while the guys he stole from died in poverty. In case you didn’t know, I have *feelings* about Lichtenstein…