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Italian 1 panel advertising an exhibition of
Roy Lichtenstein's famous 1963 pop art painting, In the Car, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.
Artwork Information
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997)
Title: In the Car (sometimes Driving)
Year Created: 1963
Medium: Oil and Magna on canvas
Current Location: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Exhibition Details
The poster advertises visiting hours at the Gallery of Modern Art at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The National Galleries of Scotland's records indicate that the specific exhibition titled "Artist Rooms: Roy Lichtenstein" which featured the painting ran from March 14, 2015, to January 10, 2016.
About the Artwork
In the Car is one of a series of romance comic-book paintings from the early 1960s where Lichtenstein enlarged panels from comics to a monumental scale. The original source material was a panel illustrated by Tony Abruzzo in a 1961 comic book called Girls' Romances. The original included a thought bubble that was omitted in the painting to heighten the visual tension and narrative ambiguity, which is characteristic of the Pop Art movement. |
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