Woman in a wheelchair 1963

Roy Lichtenstein made this painting of a woman in a wheelchair on an unknown date, but it’s now here in the Hamburger Bahnhof. It's full of these hard lines, but it's not about being hard at all; it's about something almost goofy. Look at how the blue of her dress is so flat, almost like a cartoon, but then there's this white zig-zag that suddenly gives it depth and a real breast. That line is everything, it tells you everything. You get a sense of this whole history of painting boiling down to just this one little area. It’s interesting to consider this work alongside Picasso’s portraits. Lichtenstein shares a similar interest in fragmenting and reassembling the human form but employs a very different visual language. It makes me think about how artists are always in conversation with each other, remixing ideas. So what do you think, where does the conversation go next?