From: Jane Devers
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 28 February 2004
I like Roy Lichtenstein. He took a method, three colours dots, and made it work in loads of different ways. From the interiors to the cartoons, mirrors and brush marks, to Japanesey landscapes. His success is often brutally beautifully, it is the zinging of the red, yellow, blue primaries on a white background. In some ways he reminds me of El Greco, who used the same big guns of red and blue to thundering effect. Both of them seem to fix solid some aspect of painting which is eternal whether or not the subject is angels or cartoons. Lichtensteins artists studio is a highlight with the picture in picture device working very well, and the different types of image and speech from cartoons combining to create a funny painting, which doesn't often happen. The Hayward galleries are big and ugly, and one day they should have a very tasteless messy show there.
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