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Roy Lichtenstein, “Tintin Reading” (1993) Lichtenstein has cited Tintin creator Hergé as a major influence in his work, considering him “more than a comic strip artist.” This illustration was created for the cover of Tintin in the New World, a novel using Tintin and his universe as inspiration (as well as Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain). It’s easy to feature a Lichtenstein image when presenting artworks around the theme of comics, given the way he appropriated the visual language of the form, but this drawing functions somewhat differently for me than his other works. “Tintin Reading” establishes a dialogue between comic art and fine art, depicting Matisse’s “Dance” (not to be confused with Lichtenstein’s own version of the Matisse painting) in Tintin’s zingy comic strip world. For me, this draws up issues of how we identify differently with various forms of representation, as the visual language of comics, however detached from realism, can sometimes be a more visceral form than that of fine art.

Roy Lichtenstein, “Tintin Reading” (1993)

Lichtenstein has cited Tintin creator Hergé as a major influence in his work, considering him “more than a comic strip artist.” This illustration was created for the cover of Tintin in the New World, a novel using Tintin and his universe as inspiration (as well as Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain).

It’s easy to feature a Lichtenstein image when presenting artworks around the theme of comics, given the way he appropriated the visual language of the form, but this drawing functions somewhat differently for me than his other works. “Tintin Reading” establishes a dialogue between comic art and fine art, depicting Matisse’s “Dance” (not to be confused with Lichtenstein’s own version of the Matisse painting) in Tintin’s zingy comic strip world. For me, this draws up issues of how we identify differently with various forms of representation, as the visual language of comics, however detached from realism, can sometimes be a more visceral form than that of fine art.

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