Art is the Solution

Drowning Girl Source: Museum of Modern Art I don’t know much about pop art, but I’ve always been a big fan of Roy Lichtenstein’s most famous painting, Drowning Girl . If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might have gathered that I’m an admirer of drama in art, and this painting has a simply incredible amount of inherent drama. As the MoMA explains , Lichtenstein was inspired by the melodramatic and highly emotional plots of comic books. The painting itself is actually an adaptation of the cover of a real comic book with a few small changes. Lichtenstein himself noted, “I was very excited about, and interested in, the highly emotional content yet detached, impersonal handling of love, hate, war, etc. in these cartoon images.” At its heart, the painting questions what art is. When you think of fine art, comic books probably aren’t the first things that come to mind. According to my research , contemporary critics were skeptical of the piece, questioning whether...