Collage for nude with white flower 1994

Roy Lichtenstein made this collage, entitled "Collage for nude with white flower", with paint and paper, but it's not dated. This is Lichtenstein doing what he does best – taking the everyday and making it pop. The blue dots, like a printing press gone wild, give the nude figure this cool, almost detached vibe. I can imagine him in his studio, carefully placing each dot, each stripe, thinking about how to flatten and sharpen the image. It's so Lichtenstein, so comic book, yet it's also a nude, a classic art subject. It's like he's asking, "What is high art anyway?" I think that's what I like most about his work, this way he makes us rethink what we think we know. It's like he's saying, "Hey, art can be fun, art can be smart, and it can be both at the same time."