Audio Tour Stop 25

Look Mickey, Roy Lichtenstein

Part of East Building: Featured Selections

В работе «Смотри, Микки» Рой Лихтенштейн, возможно, впервые использовал сцену и стиль из массовой культуры: детского комикса 1960 года «Дональд Дак: потеря и находка». Лихтенштейн едва заметно изменил оригинал, сделав его более единообразным, опустив фоновые фигуры, развернув угол зрения на 90 градусов, организовав цвета в полосы желтого и синего и упростив черты персонажей. Стилистически Лихтенштейн имитировал печатные издания — толстые черные контуры, основные цвета, а в глазах Дональда и Микки — чернильные точки тангирной печати, которая в то время использовалась для производства дешевых комиксов и журналов.

Look Mickey (Russian)
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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