Cubist Still Life 1974

Roy Lichtenstein created this Cubist Still Life, painted on a monumental scale with acrylic and magna on canvas. I imagine him bending over the canvas, deciding where these strong black lines will go, like leading in a stained-glass window. It's interesting, isn't it, how he's taken the visual language of Cubism, all those fractured planes and multiple perspectives, and translated it through his signature Pop Art style? There is a flattening of space, a graphic punch that feels both playful and deeply considered. Look at how the textures are rendered, the wood grain effect, it’s all so artificial. I’m thinking about Picasso and Braque who were interested in representing objects from multiple viewpoints simultaneously. Lichtenstein takes that idea but then filters it through a screen of mechanical reproduction and I wonder what they would have thought? It's like a conversation across time, each artist borrowing, reinterpreting, and pushing the boundaries of painting.