Magnus White
06-03-2009, 03:15 PM
Doing as suggested by the web site machinery to say hello to this community of people interested in Literature. I hope we number many.
preety1
06-06-2009, 08:50 AM
hello
i am anuj
Turn your photo into a Roy Lichtenstein print. Lichtenstein is the American pop artist who made Whaam! a real word. As a
birthday or anniversary gift the lichtenstein art style makes a unique statement
His best-known works are close (but, significantly, never exact) copies of comic book panels, complete with speech balloons
and captions. His themes were, in fact, sophisticated treatments of stereotypes and popular icons of modern life and their
exaggerated influence on society. He later created ironic parodies of painting styles such as Pointillism, Cubism, and
Surrealism.
He painted in oil and acrylics and was one of the first artists to use Magna paints (the first artist acrylic paints
introduced commercially in the Sixties). He rarely gave credit to the cartoonist who created the comic book images, and
claimed that his paintings were "critically transformed" with changes in scale, color, treatment, and in their implications.
His work features the thick outlines and bold colors typical of illustrated comics, but where he departed, artistically
speaking, was in how he created his colors by hand painting enlarged and exaggerated dots in a parody of the cheaply printed
pulp comic books of 1950s and 1960s.
Comic books and newspapers were at that time printed using a four-color Ben-Day dots process (cyan, magenta, yellow and
black) to inexpensively create shading and secondary colors such as green, purple, orange and flesh tones. The pre-printed
dots were applied to the drawings and then photographically reproduced for letterpress printing. Lichtenstein's irony lay in
hand painting sometimes very large dots which when viewed from a distance gave the same effect that Pointillist artists had
achieved in the 1880s.
Art Lies in the Transformation of a Photo to Canvas
With Lichtenstein's distinctive technique, there is also an unavoidable comparison to the pixels of modern digital
photography. By combining processes it is now easy to take a simple digital photograph and transform it into a "Lichtenstein
style" digital image which can then be enlarged as a photo to canvas print.
The Lichtenstein style is immediately recognizable, so if you upload a portrait of someone you care about to Paint Your
Life's Your Photos on Canvas online gallery website, you can order a photo to canvas print that transforms your family member
or significant other to a vintage comic book character.
A Lichtenstein photo portrait makes a witty and charming gift and a modern Pop Art design feature when hung at home or in an
office.
lichtenstein prints (http://www.photo-print-on-canvas.com/photos-on-canvas-gallery-lichtenstein.asp)
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