Seascape I
Seascape I
Signed Print
Roy Lichtenstein
43 x 56cm, Edition of 200, Screenprint, 1965
£6,000-£9,000
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Meaning & Analysis
Roy Lichtenstein’s intricate Landscapes, Moonscapes and Seascapes span over thirty years of his career. Time and time again, the artist would return to this innovative sequence to revise the means of landscape painting. As a result, his extensive project features several autonomous portfolios and individual editions.
Seascape 1 of 1965 belongs to the New York Ten suite. Highly experimental in its application of materials, the artwork presents a fictitious and humorous waterscape. Lichtenstein cuts his white and blue dotted sky in half using an indigo horizon line. Stretched out below the vivid blue stencil lies a body of water constituted entirely out of bubble wrap. The bubbles mirror the design of the patterned sky above.
Seascape 1 precedes the simplified layout of theTen Landscapesportfolio, reducing its pictorial plane to bare essentials. Lichtenstein transforms a naturalistic setting into something entirely artificial. The resulting scene shows a fully abstracted and static seascape at first glance.
Despite a sense of overriding flatness, however, the bubbly surface texture provokes sensory associations of motion. Lichtenstein applies plastic sheets of translucent Rowlux to ensure these spatial interplays, producing a playful simulation of movement. This print marks the starting point for Lichtenstein’s life-long artistic quest to invoke illusionistic effects using unexpected and experimental materials.
