June 2, 2023

Here is your likelihood to personal a tiny, mass-produced variations of works by well-known pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. The U.S. Postal Service just lately launched new ceaselessly stamps that includes the work of Lichtenstein. The USPS web site explains:

With these eye-catching new stamps, the U.S. Postal Service honors Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), the long-lasting American artist of the pop artwork motion. This style, which arose within the late Nineteen Fifties and reached its peak within the Sixties, appeared to common tradition for its aesthetic.

Every of the 5 stamps within the pane of 20 options one murals by Lichtenstein: Standing Explosion (Pink) (porcelain enamel on metal, 1965); Trendy Portray 1 (acrylic, oil, graphite pencil on canvas, 1966); Nonetheless Life with Crystal Bowl (acrylic, oil, graphite pencil on canvas, 1972); Nonetheless Life with Goldfish (acrylic, oil, graphite pencil on canvas, 1972); and Portrait of a Girl (acrylic, oil, graphite pencil on canvas, 1979). Within the left third of the pane is {a photograph} by Bob Adelman of Lichtenstein standing in entrance of one in every of his dot-pattern work. His face is framed by a mannequin of his 1983 sculpture Brushstrokes in Flight.

Click on right here to learn extra in regards to the stamps or to order some. 

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