Bedroom 1990

Roy Lichtenstein made this painting, Bedroom, with oil and magna on canvas. It's like he’s making a comic strip of interiority! I imagine him, carefully marking out the Ben-Day dots, a sea of them, each one an even tone of blue. You can almost feel the pressure he applied to the brush, and the lines, so precise and unwavering. It’s not just a bedroom; it’s an idea of a bedroom, reduced to its most graphic elements. The sharp lines of the window, the jaunty angles of the furniture, and the flat planes of color—all these details offer a sense of coolness, like nothing is quite as it seems. There's something both accessible and alienating about this work. Maybe he was thinking about consumerism, artifice, and how we construct our realities, just like other artists whose work engages with the everyday, from Warhol to Hockney. It makes you wonder, what’s real, what’s fake, and what’s in between?