One of the best-known American artists, Roy Lichtenstein created some of the most recognizable images of the pop-art movement. His comic-strip-inspired paintings appropriated elements of popular culture, repositioning them in the context of high art as a rebuke to prevailing abstract expressionist aesthetics. Lichtenstein, born and raised in New York, taught at the State University of New York at Oswego and at Rutgers University during the late 1950s and early 1960s, thereafter dedicating himself entirely to making art. Lichtenstein found commercial success throughout his long and prolific career, and his work continues to be widely collected and exhibited in the United States and abroad.
I wish to praise God
who is great in praises,
who created for man
all kinds of flowers,
and they all are singular
in their colors and scents
and of all the best ones
was the musk flower.
Above all…
Paul Goldman was notable for keeping his distance from his subjects, perhaps as a show of respect. He photographed many of Israel’s early leaders. Here, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister…
The Last Breath is one of the genre paintings depicting the lives of fishermen and their families for which Josef Israëls was best known. In this scene, a woman is weeping over the body of her husband…