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Portrait of Roy Lichtenstein (98.XM.168.3)

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American Photographer · 1928–1987

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> If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. > > --Andy Warhol Thus Andy Warhol described himself, being deliberately enigmatic with regard to the depth of his talent. Having received a degree in pictorial design in 1949, he began his professional career as a window dresser and later as a commerci

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Date: 1975
Medium: Polaroid dye diffusion print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

>At 4:00 the Walt Disney film crew came and shot me in front of my Shoes and my Walt Disney drawings. They asked me who my favorite Disney character was and I said, 'Minnie Mouse, because she can get me close to Mickey.' So wrote Andy Warhol in 1981. Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein had painted Mickey Mouse on a challenge from his young son to prove that he could "draw like the people who did cartoons," but this made his friend Andy Warhol jealous. Lichtenstein had "gotten to Mickey first," thus scooping Warhol on representing the popular cultural icon. Lichtenstein and Warhol collected each other's work. As part of a trade between the two artists, Warhol made this Polaroid study in preparation for painting his friend's portrait. He admired Lichtenstein's art, which employed a limited palette of flat primary colors and heavy black outlines in imitation of comic book illustrators and commercial printing methods.

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