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ROY LICHTENSTEIN - KISS V Skate Decks Pop Art Design Modern2024
2024
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£755.66
€850
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Roy Lichtenstein - Kiss V
Date of creation: 2024
Medium: Digital print on Canadian maple wood
Edition: Open
Size: 80 x 20 cm (each skate)
Condition: In mint conditions and never displayed
This triptych is formed by three skate decks made of 7 ply grade A Canadian maple wood.
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein, 2024, all rights reserved
Kiss V (1964) by Roy Lichtenstein is a piece that explores emotions and relationships through his characteristic comic art style, but with an ironic and detached twist. This work belongs to the Kiss series, one of the most well-known within pop art, a movement in which Lichtenstein is a key figure. As in other of his works, in Kiss V the artist uses images taken from comics, but he doesn’t simply reproduce them; he transforms them, exaggerating certain visual and stylistic elements, making the image become something more than a graphic representation of a scene.
The painting shows two figures, a man and a woman, in a passionate embrace, their faces so close that their lips almost touch. However, what makes this scene unique and typical of Lichtenstein is the way it is presented. The visual style of Kiss V is marked by thick outline lines and flat colors, combined with the characteristic Ben-Day dots, a technique used in commercial printing to create shading and tones in images.
What’s fascinating about the piece is the way Lichtenstein plays with emotional exaggeration and artificiality. The kiss is depicted in a way that, instead of capturing the intensity or genuine intimacy of a romantic moment, it becomes a distant image, another piece of visual consumption within mass culture. The scene seems stripped of any real emotional nuance; it is exaggerated and mechanized, a metaphor for how human emotions can be consumed and replicated in cinema, comics, and advertising.
The work also reflects an implicit critique of the idealization of romantic relationships presented in popular media. The characters in the painting don’t seem to have a genuine emotional connection but are trapped in a superficial representation of love, as if it were just another image in a cultural production chain.
As for its impact, Kiss V is considered one of the most iconic examples of how Lichtenstein could take elements of popular culture and transform them into contemporary art, questioning the relationship between art and consumer culture. The work highlights how comics, a medium considered “low” compared to traditional arts, can be used to explore universal themes like love, desire, and emotionality, but from a critical and reflective perspective.
Kiss V is a high-impact piece that invites reflection on how emotions and relationships are represented, consumed, and recycled in contemporary visual culture. Lichtenstein, as in other works, not only celebrates these themes but also challenges them, inviting the viewer to question the authenticity of the media-driven emotions we consume.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City, into a wealthy Jewish family. His father, Milton Lichtenstein, was a successful real estate broker, and his mother, Beatrice, was a homemaker with an interest in art. This comfortable environment, rich in cultural stimuli, allowed Roy to develop an early interest in drawing, jazz, and science fiction—interests that would permeate much of his later work.
He attended the Franklin School for Boys in Manhattan and later the Ohio State University, where he studied fine arts. His studies were interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the U.S. Army. Upon returning, he resumed his education and began teaching at various institutions, including Rutgers University, where he met Allan Kaprow, one of the precursors of performance art. This meeting helped shape Lichtenstein's thoughts on the boundaries of art.
In the early 1960s, Lichtenstein took a dramatic turn in his artistic direction. Tired of the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, which he saw as overly serious and emotionally saturated, he began experimenting with comic book imagery. His 1961 piece Look Mickey marked a watershed moment: it featured a recognizable cartoon image rendered with hand-painted Ben-Day dots, a technique used in commercial printing to create shading and color variation.
From this point on, Lichtenstein developed an unmistakable style characterized by bold outlines, flat colors, and the use of dots to mimic the appearance of printed comics. His work was both a celebration and a critique of mass media and consumer culture. Paintings like Whaam! (1963) and Drowning Girl (1963) are now icons of the Pop Art movement, juxtaposing melodrama with mechanical precision.
One of Lichtenstein's greatest contributions was his ability to transform banal, everyday imagery into works of high art, forcing viewers to confront the line between commercial and fine art. His work was not without controversy; critics accused him of plagiarizing comic artists, but Lichtenstein always defended his reinterpretations as transformative and conceptual.
Over the following decades, Lichtenstein expanded his scope, venturing into sculptures, murals, and reinterpretations of works by other artists, such as Picasso, Monet, and van Gogh. His Brushstrokes series (1965-1966) cleverly mimicked the gestural marks of Abstract Expressionism but rendered them in his mechanical style, parodying the very movement that once dominated the art world.
In the 1980s and 90s, Lichtenstein continued to innovate, creating large-scale public artworks and exploring themes like art deco, surrealism, and the history of painting itself. He also created pieces that commented on the artifice of perspective and the illusionism of space, always through his characteristic lens of irony and detachment.
Roy Lichtenstein passed away in 1997, but his legacy remains profound. His works are part of major collections around the world, from MoMA in New York to the Tate Modern in London. His influence can be seen in advertising, graphic design, and even digital culture, cementing him as one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
Through humor, clarity, and a touch of provocation, Lichtenstein redefined what art could be. He transformed the mundane into the monumental and taught generations to see the extraordinary within the ordinary.
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