Water
Lilies

Water Lilies is a stunning example of the artist’s ground-breaking approach to material and form. The prints present pop rendition of tree bark, lily pads, cascading willows and a reflective pond. Within these pieces, the artist creates various imitations of tone and texture using thick outlines, diagonal swirls, and swathes of halftone Ben Day dots. The dense designs suggest vegetation and wood grain as well as a rippled and refracted surface of water.

The sequence contains brilliant superimpositions of pigments, as the fictitious nature scenes evidently aspire to achieve optical illusions, as well as an unified imagery. The artist here harnesses the universal appeal that painterly motifs hold in the human psyche. The series honours the stylistic precedents of the genre by recreating the atmospheric effects that characterise it.

Lichtenstein designed the frame for each of his Water Lilies. This is a clever conceptual and sculptural trick that emphasises the artwork as an object. When creating his Water Lilies, the artist was also inspired by the dashboards of 1920s and 1930s cars.

The series aims to simultaneously update art's historic legacies as it employs an entirely contemporary visual lexicon. Lichtenstein encourages viewers to consider just how conditioned creative conception is. He ultimately prompts the public to question art’s time-binding properties. This important body of work demonstrates some of the key themes that would come to define Lichtenstein’s practice. Water Lilies demonstrates the artist’s intellectual dialogue with art history and the concept of image-making.

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