CRAK!
1964
19 7/8 x 28 7/16 in. (50.5 x 72.2 cm)
Roy Lichtenstein
United States
(New York, NY, 1923 - 1997, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Offset lithograph
Credit Line:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery
Accession Number:
1975.239
Location: Not currently on view
Collection:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection
Printer:
Colorcraft, New York
Publisher:
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Gallery label text 2012:
CRAK! was made around the time Roy Lichtenstein first gained attention for his appropriation and elevation of the visual vocabulary of comic strips. The now-iconic Ben-Day dots, thick outlines, speech balloons, and tight cropping were quite new and shocking at the time. Both Lichtenstein and Warhol were elemental in the Pop Art movement for their conscious rejection of highbrow subjects and their use of commercial printing techniques.