We_Rose_Up_Slowly,_Roy_Lichtenstein

We Rose Up Slowly, Roy Lichtenstein WE ROSE UP SLOWLY DATE PAINTED: 1964 MEDIUM: Oil and Magma on Canvas PRESENTLOCATION: Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfort SIZE: 173 X 234 cm As in Drowning Girl (1963) this is another watery romance scene. But in We Rose Up Slowly the mood is happiness not sorrow. In this painting there are two beautiful Aryan blonde haired blue eyed types of opposite sexes are finding “ecstasy” in one another’s arms.# Their two faces practically mirror each other in shape and colour. They are bound together with strips of blue Benday dots. Once again Lichtenstein uses limited colours and his Benday dots to mimic printed material. Only primary colours and black have been used against a white background. The yellow and blue dominate the images. Clear, thick, bold black outlines are used again to make the image stand out. The text as in the previous Takka Takka (1962) is completely separate from the image and is on its text, make, lichtenstein, dots, blue, again, written, two, takka, slowly, sense, scene, rose, one, letters, image, hand, colours, black, benday, yellow, work, without, white, weightless, watery, waken, voice, viewers, viewer, understandable, types, try, together, though