Roy Lichtenstein’s In the Car: a dramatic close encounter

The artist zoomed in on his source material, the comic strip Girls’ Romances, to instil in his beaus the energy of confident, capitalist postwar USAn early work derived from comic strips, this features Lichtenstein’s recreation of the mass media’s Ben-Day dots printing process. It would become one of the most recognisable 20th-century styles. Continue reading...