Dagwood 1984

Roy Lichtenstein made this painting called Dagwood with screenprint on paper. Just imagine him, leaning over a flat surface, pushing ink through a screen. The yellow pops right out, doesn’t it? Like sunshine hitting a sandwich, or maybe just a big slab of pure color, cartoon-style. It’s kinda like he's asking, what if we took something really familiar and turned it into an abstraction? I mean, Dagwood's that comic strip guy who makes these crazy, mile-high sandwiches, right? So maybe Roy's thinking about how we consume images, how they become part of our daily lives. It’s as if he’s trying to show us that even the most mundane things can be kinda weird and interesting if you look at them in the right way, you know? Lichtenstein, Warhol... These guys were all riffing off each other, taking ideas from pop culture and turning them into high art. Painting isn’t just about what you see, but how you see it, and what you do with it.