Real world Lichtenstein girl

A MAC cosmetics shoot recreated Roy Lichtenstein's halftone-dot comic-girl to very good effect.

The Real life Lichtenstein-Comic-Girl (Thanks, Patrick!)

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Anonymous

Would be great if you’d refer to it by the actual printing term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Day_dots
bazzargh

Point of order (so to speak) – those are Ben Day dots, not halftone, since the dots are all the same size. Not being picky, just an excuse to mention Ben Day really, since he’s always struck me as an interesting character: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Day
Anonymous

I must be jaded, because I was thoroughly disappointed that this wasn’t a tattoo.
celestialcereal

anyone know who the model is?
SamSam

There’s something that just doesn’t work about the image. I don’t know, maybe the dots are just way too big? And are there any shots of her in the typical poses?
gdig

I saw a girl in NY with this costume for Halloween. It was brilliant.
JIMWICh

That’s all kinds of awesome!

But I kind of wish they’d added a number of black defining streaks to her hair as well to make it perfect.
Anonymous

I find it hard to comprehend that there are people who think Lichtenstein isn’t original.
WOW – is all I can say about that.
Some people really don’t understand the concept of ART – sorry if you think you DO, but if you think Roy’s not original, you clearly DO NOT.

Also, I’m surprised they didn’t go a little farther with this make-up job, and put some black lines in her hair, in addition to a white highlight on her lips…
SO close.
- EvilSpirit
  
  @14
  
  I guess we’re even, since I find it hard to comprehend that there are people who think that Lichtenstein’s stuff *is* original.
Anonymous

That’s the worst case of herpes I’ve ever seen.
- Anonymous
  
  That made me laugh.
  
  This is fantastic by the way, although the dots seem a little big and I agree the hair ought to have black streaks and white highlighting on lips.
  
  How about this for a controversial idea:
  There is no original art, for all ideas have in fact been thought of by others before you, and all artists take things from somewhere else to use in their art – may it be someone else’s idea, a story, a poem, music, a soup can or a comic book girl.
jfrancis

Jennifer Corona did the best one I’ve seen – I like the tears

http://www.myspace.com/jennifercorona
seancinneide

“…original paintings by Roy Lichtenstein” (from the linked article) is a bit of an oxymoron, considering his pop-art paintings were copied from panels in existing comic books.

Just noticed that’s covered by BB in the Previously links.

Neat make-up job, regardless.
alexdecampi

London’s Pandemonia Panacea (http://www.wix.com/Pandemonia99/pandemonia ) also does a wonderful Lichtenstein Girl… wonder if Mac got the idea from her?
Anonymous

If you have a problem with considering his paintings original then I have a problem with your definition of original. Is calling a still life painting or a photograph original also oxymoronic?
arkizzle / Moderator

Effective!
mdh

Wonderful!!
Bryan C

Awesome. And, if I may say so, the result is lot more original than anything Lichtenstein himself ever did.
- Brainspore
  
  …the result is lot more original than anything Lichtenstein himself ever did.
  
  Comic = original.
  Painting of a comic = not original.
  Reenaction of a painting of a comic = original.
  
  Got it!
  - Sarah
    
    Sounds very familiar.
    
    Calvin: A painting. Moving. Spiritually enriching. Sublime. “High” art!
    The comic strip. Vapid. Juvenile. Commercial hack work. “Low” art.
    A painting of a comic strip panel. Sophisticated irony. Philosophically challenging. “High” art.
    Hobbes: Suppose I draw a cartoon of a painting of a comic strip?
    Calvin: Sophomoric, intellectually sterile. “Low” art.
    
    http://modernkicks.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/calvin_3.jpg
AlmostLucy

I always wanted a room decorated in Ben Day dots.
Steve Schnier

I agree with Bryan C – but awesome nonetheless.
Anonymous

Lichtenstein could only convince the world these were more than $50 coffee-shop paintings because the weird cultural snob boundaries of the mid-twentieth century meant you would never see actual original comic-book art hanging in a gallery.

I felt the same way about those urinals and vacuum cleaners some fool propped up in a gallery and put his name on. Those things didn’t just grow out of the ground. Real people designed them, and did not get credit from the art world.
- Brainspore
  
  Lichtenstein could only convince the world these were more than $50 coffee-shop paintings because the weird cultural snob boundaries of the mid-twentieth century meant you would never see actual original comic-book art hanging in a gallery.
  
  And that’s one of the things that Lichtenstein helped change. So why the hate?
  - Anonymous
    
    Yes, well somebody definitely doesn’t understand something.
    
    Like the difference between innovation and plagiarism:
    
    http://davidbarsalou.homestead.com/LICHTENSTEINPROJECT.html
- Anonymous
  
  I see that you have failed to understand 20th Century art. Perhaps you should join the Stuckists.
sjstone

For anyone interested in trying this at home, MAC has instructions and a supply list at http://www.maccosmetics.com/looks/print/Halloween16.pdf.

They also credit the MAC artist, Karin Stone in Chicago, IL.