DECORDAVA SCULPTURE PARK AND MUSEUM TO PRESENT LICHTENSTEIN SCULPTURE

DECORDAVA SCULPTURE PARK AND MUSEUM, LINCOLN MA, ANNOUNCED THE ARRIVAL OF ROY LICHTENSTEIN'S FIVE BRUSHSTROKES, A MONUMENTAL ADDITION TO THE SCULPTURE PARK. THE 2010 FABRICATION ON LICHTENSTEIN'S ICONIC FIVE BRUSHSTROKES SHOWCASES HIS BOLD, COLOURFUL GRAPHICS AND HUMOROUS PORTRAYAL OF THE BRUSHSTROKES, AN INTEGRAL YET UNCOMMON SUBJECT IN ART. RISING 20 FEET HIGH, FIVE BRUSHSTROKES PAYS HOMAGE TO LICHTENSTEIN'S POSITION AS A CENTRAL FIGURE OF THE 1960s POP ART MOVEMENT. LICHTENSTEIN'S DYNAMIC, STYLIZED BRUSHSTROKES WILL ENLIVEN DECORDOVA'S CAMPUS FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. ROY LICHTENSTEIN EMERGED AS AN INNOVATIVE ARTIST DURING THE 1960s POP ART MOVEMENT, A MOVEMENT CHARACTERIZED BY BRIGHT, BOLD GRAPHICS AND THEMES FROM POPULAR CULTURE. LICHTENSTEIN FIRST GRABBED THE ATTENTION OF THE ART WORLD WITH HIS BENDAY DOTS, FLAT COLOURS AND HARD BLACK OUTLINES DERIVED FROM COMICS. THE SCULPTURES HE PRODUCED THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER ARE LITTLE KNOWN COMPARED TO HIS TWO DIMENSIONAL GRAPHIC WORKS. LICHTENSTEIN BEGAN MAKING MULTI-COLOURED, PLANAR SCULPTURES BASED ON HIS GRAPHIC WORK IN THE 1970s. FIVE BRUSHSTROKES IS A 20ft HIGH STACK OF THREE LARGE STROKES AND TWO SMALL GLOBS. HE MADE THE SCULPTURE LATE IN HIS CAREER, LONG AFTER HE HAD ABANDONED COMIC STRIP SUBJECT MATTER IN FAVOR OF RE-MAKING PICASSO, MATISSE, MONDRIAN AND EVEN HIS OWN 'MASTERWORKS'. THE POP ART MOVEMENT WAS, IN PART, A REBELLION AGAINST THE IMPROVISED, EMOTIONAL STYLE OF THE 1940s AND 1950s ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM. FIVE BRUSHSTROKES SATIRIZES ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST STROKES OF PAINT BY SEPARATING, AMPLIFYING AND EXAGGERATING THEM WITH HARD EDGES AND BOLD PAIRINGS.