COOL POP.Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard EXHIBIT PREVIEW Roy Lichtenstein Prints 1956-97 What: Prints by pop art master Roy Lichtenstein, from the collection of Jordan Schnitzer and his family foundation Where: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. The original building was designed by Ellis F. Lawrence as part of his "main university quadrangle," now known as the Memorial Quadrangle. , 1430 Johnson Lane, on the University of Oregon campus The University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon has around 80 buildings and facilities, including athletics sites such as Hayward Field, which is the site for the 2008 Olympic Track and Field Trials, and McArthur Court, and off-campus sites such as nearby Autzen Stadium and the When: Opens with a reception from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. tonight, then continues through Aug. 27 Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday Admission: $5 Roy Lichtenstein, the pop art master known for his big cartoon panels in the 1960s New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of art scene, helped craft an international art movement - pop art - that was slick, cool and ironic. And Lichtenstein was just like that in person, his widow says. "He was like his paintings, in a way," Dorothy Lichtenstein said last week in a telephone interview from her home in Southampton, N.Y. "Reserved and shy, but ironic." Dorothy Lichtenstein will be the guest of honor tonight when an exhibit of prints by her late husband opens at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on campus at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. . ``Roy Lichtenstein Prints 1956-97'' is drawn from the collection of Jordan Schnitzer himself, who is to bring Lichtenstein to Eugene for tonight's reception after her plane lands in Portland. Dorothy Lichtenstein was a young art history graduate and working at the Bianchini Gallery in New York in 1964 when it held a show called "The American Supermarket," which would include such "groceries" as Andy Warhol Noun 1. Andy Warhol - United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987) Warhol Campbell's Soup cans  Campbell's Soup Cans (sometimes referred to as 32 Campbell's Soup Cans)[1] is a work of art produced in 1962 by Andy Warhol. and Lichtenstein turkeys. The gallery asked Warhol and Lichtenstein each to design a silkscreened grocery bag. They agreed, and she met her future husband when he came in to sign his. From photographs of the time, the young gallery director was clearly glamorous as well as art smart. The two hit it off immediately. ``I had a broken leg,'' Dorothy Lichtenstein said. ``I had been skiing and had a cast on my leg. He always said later, `I knew I could catch you.' ' Born in 1923, Lichtenstein was a virtually unknown artist when he began making cartoon images in about 1960. A story, perhaps apocryphal a·poc·ry·phal adj. 1. Of questionable authorship or authenticity. 2. Erroneous; fictitious: "Wildly apocryphal rumors about starvation in Petrograd . . . , was that his son complained that "you're an artist and you can't draw," whereupon Lichtenstein drew a quick Disney cartoon. However he got started, Lichtenstein soon recognized the power of the pop culture image and used it in sophisticated ways. His work, based on cartoons and commercial imagery, was cool, ironic and detached, a perfect counterpoint counterpoint, in music, the art of combining melodies each of which is independent though forming part of a homogeneous texture. The term derives from the Latin for "point against point," meaning note against note in referring to the notation of plainsong. to the wildly romantic, hard-living abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline Noun 1. Franz Kline - United States abstract expressionist painter (1910-1962) Franz Joseph Kline, Kline who dominated the post-World War II art world. Abstract expressionism abstract expressionism, movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school. worshipped the precious object - the original hand-crafted painting. Pop art substituted the machine-made multiple, the exact lithographic lith·o·graph n. A print produced by lithography. tr.v. lith·o·graphed, lith·o·graph·ing, lith·o·graphs To produce by lithography. or silkscreened print, showing little or no touch of the artist's hand. Though Lichtenstein's vision never wavered, sometimes he wasn't entirely sure he had the courage to carry it out, his widow said. Before the successes of pop art, the art world despised commercial graphics. Lichtenstein - a man of high-brow tastes - had soaked up enough of that prejudice to feel it himself. "It was almost a matter of getting beyond his own taste to continue doing them," Dorothy Lichtenstein said of the pop art prints. The year they met, Life magazine ran a story about his work, titled: "Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?" Lichtenstein never quite trusted his success. "Nobody really felt famous or successful at that time," his widow said. "The idea they could actually not have a day job and could earn enough on the sale of paintings to pay for a loft and food seemed more than they had ever hoped for." Roy Lichtenstein, who had put in dreary years teaching art at a college in Oswego, N.Y., used to say he feared waking up one day and realizing it had all been a dream. "I can't say Roy ever felt like a celebrity," Dorothy Lichtenstein said. "He used to joke as he became more successful, `I know they are going to wake me up and shake me "Shake Me" was the debut single from hard rock band Cinderella. It was the subject of a music video which played upon the band's name, thus depicting a girl, who, Cinderella-like, is unable to go to a Cinderella show, while what one must suppose to be her elder sisters can. , and I'll be 80 years old in the rest home in Oswego, and they'll say it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for your pills.' ' He died in 1997 at the age of 73, still famous. The show at the Schnitzer consists of 77 pieces drawn from Schnitzer's and his family's collection. The earliest image is a 1956 lithograph, ``Ten Dollar Bill (Ten Dollars)'' that predated Lichtenstein's pop imagery; the print shows a Picasso-esque vision of what currency could look like. The show also contains some of his ``Bull Profile'' series, a set of images that deconstruct de·con·struct tr.v. de·con·struct·ed, de·con·struct·ing, de·con·structs 1. To break down into components; dismantle. 2. the image of a bull, also much as Picasso did; and the trademark images of Dorothy Lichtenstein-like blondes (though they preceded her), such as ``Reverie'' and ``Crying Girl.'' When asked, Dorothy Lichtenstein resisted picking her own favorite from her husband's work, quoting Jeanne-Claude Christo to the effect that you might as well be asked to pick your favorite child. But she did confess she's partial to the ``Brushstroke Figures'' series, which is in the Schnitzer show. ``I like the `Brushstrokes' so much because this is a way of conceptualizing and freezing something that has such free movement,'' she said. ``I like the irony of that.'' |
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