WARNING!
The following facts are going to send a lot of Roy Lichtenstein fans wild and frothing at the mouth and that’s because all of their illusions are finally going to be shattered. I excel at destroying liars, and their lies. I have a lifetime of experience dealing with bullshitters therefore am good at calling people out on their crap. Stating the facts is not defamation so haters, please don’t try pulling that BS on Me. All I’m doing is showing people who are fans of his work, like I used to be, that in reality, his art is not what you’ve been tricked into believing it is.
Has anybody seen an original Roy Lichtenstein pop art painting in real life? I have, and immediately lost ALL respect for him. Pictured here is a close-up of Lichtenstein’s Look Mickey painting from 1961.
QUESTION!
How does an amateur artist sell bad quality paintings for $165 MILLION and I get My artist account deactivated at an online gallery and My superior paintings removed because I listed them for only $6 MILLION? 🤔
Compare Lichtenstein’s line work next to Mine (above) which has NOT been retouched in Photoshop. Yes, My lines are so clean that I’ve actually had people question whether My paintings are real or just prints. Knowledgeable art collectors who have many years experience in pop and comic art (art that requires to be painted using a hard edge painting technique) have told Me that my work is the best they’ve seen yet I’m continually being censored and blacklisted by amateurs and jealous haters.
I used to be obsessed with Lichtenstein’s work and that’s because I thought his lines were super clean, just like you see in all the comic books. I studied his work and tried my best to paint My lines as perfectly as his. When I first started painting again after returning to Australia I duplicated a lot of his paintings because to Me, and millions of others who have been fooled, Roy Lichtenstein is a pop art god. Everybody knows his work and they all look up to him as some sort of pop art role model. Allow Me to remove those blinders from your eyes!
My eyes practically fell out of My head when I saw Look Mickey in real life at the Pop To Popism exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney back in 2014. I yelled to My sister who was busy admiring Warhol’s work on the other side of the room, “Come and check out this shit!” In a split second, the guy who I respected and looked up to as a brilliant artist and the Almighty God of Pop Art, took a swift nose dive into a pile of stinking manure. My face literally turned white because I was so horrified, and that’s no exaggeration. “But, but, how? How can art that looks perfect in books and on the internet look like absolute shit in real life?” I’ll tell you how in one word: FRAUD.
See all those nice little Roy Lichtenstein pictures you see online? They’ve all been retouched in Photoshop so they look good. Don’t believe Me? Here’s the photo I took of Look Mickey at the exhibition again …
Now check out what this painting looks like online …
Where are the crooked lines and pencil marks? They’ve disappeared! You gotta love Photoshop and that awesome Clone Stamp Tool. Here’s a close-up of Donald Duck’s foot …
Does that look like the foot in Roy boy’s original painting?
Not even close. That, my lovely pop art fans, is fraud, plain and simple. The colours aren’t even the same. I bet My left butt cheek that all his paintings look as bad as this one yet they still sell for millions. Anybody see anything wrong with this picture?
Roy Lichtenstein’s Masterpiece sold for $165 million in 2017. That’s outrageous … and to call it a “masterpiece”? The boogers in My nose are a bigger masterpiece than this painting of a chick who looks like she has Down Syndrome.
The art industry is RIGGED, obviously! I should be a multi-billionaire by now because My paintings demolish Roy Lichtenstein’s. Even My copies of his paintings are better than his. Now that’s embarrassing. Are you offended yet? Good! Because so am I! How dare these frauds deceive the entire world into believing that Lichtenstein is a professional artist!? I even bought a few of his books because I thought he knew how to paint. REFUND PLEASE! Who the hell are these rich arseholes who are throwing away millions on this slop? *whistles* Hello! Over here boys! You want to buy fine art? Then look no further! I’m a professional pop artist from Sydney, Australia who knows how to paint straight lines. I promise. I’ll email you close-up unretouched photos of My work so you can see with your own eyes. Still not convinced? Then contact Me so we can organise a day for you to come to My studio and see the paintings in real life. Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll show you the best pop art you’ve ever seen in your life. Mark my words!
I Can See the Whole Room … and There’s Nobody in It! (1961) is a 48″ x 48″ painting that sold for $43,202,500 (£26,785,550/€31,105,800) at Christie’s New York. Thinking about that gives Me pelvic cramps. I can paint this shit in less than a day and it’ll be a hundred times better quality!
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Maybe I should just do both. This is unbelievable. Don’t you dare tell Me we’re not living in Clown World, which is the technical name for the place everybody calls “hell”. Only in some inverted realm such as this do rich people pay millions for amateur art. Bah! I had some dude email Me and ask if I could paint Roy Lichtenstein’s Girl with Hair Ribbon for his office. Of course I can! I quoted him $165,000 and never heard from him again.
Obviously he knows nothing about art, just like the majority of online art galleries who only sell art so they can collect quick dollars for doing absolutely nothing. It’s not about art for them, it’s about fast turnover because the more low-priced amateur art they can sell on their site, the more money they make, especially now with this whole Black Lives Matter bullshit. Gotta jump on the BLM train and pump out some black art for quick bucks. Yay! Let’s pretend we love crappy art because then we can profit nicely. Fuck Me. So many dupes falling for the psyop. Black Lives Matter is a RACIST, ANTI-WHITE, HATE MOVEMENT you blind morons! If you’re White and you’re posting BLM crap on your social media then you are psychotic. How dare you betray your own race? Shame on you! Traitors! Criminals!
I’m not allowed to list my paintings for $6 million on their site because it “undermines” their other artists! Honey, that’s the SALE price! The original price is $666,666,666 and that’s Australian dollars, mate. You get what you pay for dear knowledgeable art collectors when you buy art from the Queen of Pop.
Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein
Imagine you drew a comic book for a nominal fee and a world-famous artist recreated in paint a panel from that work and sold it for millions of dollars without you receiving any credit or royalties. Such is the case for numerous comics creators whose work was repurposed by Roy Lichtenstein, the uber-famous pop artist whose paintings based on comic book panels hang in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as too many others to list here.
David Barsalou has been working for 32 years to track down Lichenstein’s source material and shine light on the original comic book artists. His work is exhaustive, with over 1200 fascinating images on Flickr showcasing not just the published comic book material but also Lichtenstein’s original drawings. Many of the images are accompanied by essays on the project from newspapers and journals, as well as biographies of the original artists.
Source – Comics Alliance
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