Nude on beach 1977

Roy Lichtenstein's "Nude on beach" at Museum Wuerth, is, like much of his work, made with very precise, flat color, and his signature benday dots. It's so process-oriented, but in a completely different way to what I do. I think of process as something messy, searching, full of doubt. Lichtenstein's process, on the other hand, seems like a decision, a plan and an outcome. A bit like advertising. The colors are so bold. You can almost smell the ink. The flat yellow of the sand is the same yellow as the cheese. Delicious. There's a kind of comic-book shorthand at play here, where objects are reduced to simple shapes. It's funny to think of someone like Ellsworth Kelly doing something similarly pared-down but with a completely different feel, more about nuance and subtlety. With Lichtenstein, you get this kind of bold, graphic punch. It's a choice about how to see, and also, maybe, about what to say.