Ionarts comments on the Guardian's review of a retrospective of Roy Lichtenstein's work at the Louisiana. I admit that I'm not a big fan of Lichtenstein, but must agree with ionart's assessment of the heavy-handed and grumpy analysis of the Guardian's reviewer. I find it hard to believe, for example, that there's no irony in Lichtenstein's work, although perhaps that irony dissipates somewhat in a one-artist-show, when it's seen with only itself as a reference.
Then there was this from the Guardian reviewer: "This kind of art—a painting of the back of a painting, a cast of a beer can—has always fascinated Americans. At once naive and sophisticated, it speaks to a culture both materialist and self-conscious." Not sure how to respond to that; wouldn't want to trade with some equally pointy jibe against British artistic habits.
Posted by Heather at January 6, 2004 02:34 PM
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