Audio Tour Stop 25

Look Mickey, Roy Lichtenstein

Part of East Building: Featured Selections (한국인)

로이 리히텐슈타인(Roy Lichtenstein)이 대중 문화에 등장하는 장면과 양식을 번안한 최초의 작품이 미키, 이것 좀 봐(Look Mickey)일 수 있으며, 이 작품은 1960년 시판된 어린이 만화책 도널드 덕: 분실물 보관소(Donald Duck: Lost and Found)를 번안하였습니다. 리히텐슈타인은 절묘하게 원본 만화의 배경 인물을 생략하고 시점을 90도 회전시키고 색상을 노란색과 파란색 띠로 구성하고 캐릭터의 특징을 단순화하여 보다 통일된 이미지로 바꿨습니다. 양식적으로, 리히텐슈타인은 인쇄 매체, 즉 짙은 검은 색 외곽선, 원색, 당시 저렴한 만화책과 잡지를 제작하는 데 사용되었고 이 작품에서 도널드의 눈과 미키의 얼굴에서 사용된 벤데이 인쇄 공정의 잉크 점 등을 모방했습니다.

Look Mickey (Korean)
The Disney cartoon characters, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, fish off a dock in this horizontal painting. The scene and characters are painted entirely flat areas of canary yellow, cobalt blue, tomato red, and white. To our left, Donald leans over the edge of the dock with his feet spread and duckbill hanging open. He has a white body outlined in blue, big eyes filled with a pattern of tiny blue dots, and yellow feet and duckbill. He wears a blue sailor’s hat and jacket with a red bow tie and yellow circles indicating buttons. He holds a fishing pole with an oval, red bobber near the fishhook high over his head. The pole has bent back with the fishhook snagged on the back hem of Donald’s jacket. A white speech bubble over Donald’s head is outlined in blue, and blue text inside reads, “LOOK MICKEY, I’VE HOOKED A BIG ONE!!” Mickey stands to our right, covering his smiling mouth with his left hand, on our right, and holding an upright fishing pole with the other hand. His round face is filled with a pattern of tiny red dots, and his curving hairline and ears are blue. He wears blue pants, a red shirt and shoes, and white gloves. The dock is mostly yellow with a white area on the right. Its planks and three white, round posts supporting it are outlined in blue. Rippling water surrounding the dock is defined by wavy lines and undulating bands of blue against a yellow background. The artist signed his initials in the lower left, “rfl.”
Roy Lichtenstein, Look Mickey, 1961, oil on canvas, Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.41.1

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