Thursday, May 05, 2005
Temple of Apollo
The RBR World Art Tour begins semi-locally with Roy Lichtenstein's Temple of Apollo.Roy (1923-1997) was born in New York, studied there, served in the Army in WWII and then received his MFA from The Ohio State Unversity in 1949. Prior to 1957 he painted in an abstract epressionist style, probably as a result of living in Cleveland which was much better experienced in the abstract than in real time in that era. Developing a liking for Double Bubble an interest in the cartoons from the bubble gum wrappers led him to a new style by 1961. In order to put some fun back in art that he thought was boring he switched to Day dots and cartoon and landscape images. The Day dots enabled him to greatly increase the size of the images while maintaining the fun spirit of the original subject, part of which was stuck to the bottoms of his shoes.
Temple of Apollo is one of Bird's favorite Lichtenstein paintings and it lends itself to a visit from some of birds realtives who stand guard on a few of the pillars. The oil and magna on canvas painting was completed in 1964 and measures 94" x 128". The original is in a private collection in Pasadena CA.
Bird will be off to Europe in a day or two to visit Rembrandt.
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