While researching post modernism, I came across a famous Roy Lichtenstein piece that I clearly remember from my childhood being painted on the wall of my old art room in elementary. So many times I would stare up at the drowning girl wondering what was going on in the painting and the bubble of text beside her and the way she was drawn reminded me of a comic-strip character by.
After doing some research of Lichtenstein, I now appreciate his work far more than I did before. Like other postmodern art, there was always criticism on the amount of skill that was involved in making something that was considered art. But Lichtenstein embraced this "low" art combining a mechanical and hand-drawn reproduction of his work. Because of the comic-strip style of it, he grew to appreciate the codes and argued that high art and popular were no different, both relied on code for production.
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