{"id":65454,"date":"2019-06-30T21:19:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65454"},"modified":"2019-07-01T00:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T00:15:34","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65454","title":{"rendered":"Whoa boy, Roy Lichtenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — from comix-pop to painting paint to a swirling portrait of complexity, aka tohu=bohu<\/em> ]
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Whoa boy, I had no idea Roy Lichtenstein<\/strong> ever painted anything like this:<\/p>\n

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I knew, of course, that he’d painted blown-up mersions of comic frames:<\/p>\n

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Whaam! 1963 Roy Lichtenstein<\/a> 1923-1997 Purchased 1966<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n

But that’s too easily “cool” to impress me much. Far more interesting is his painting of painting:<\/p>\n

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He’s still doing a blow-up, in this case even more extreme than in his comic-book blow up Whaam<\/strong>, above — but this time it’s self-conscious, a painter taking paint for his subject, a serpent biting its own tail you might say, an exemplary ouroboros<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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And in the course of my quick search for Lichtenstein <\/strong>images, I also found this, which interests me as, potentially, an image of multiple musical voices intersecting and separating — a strange, wave-like form of polyphony: <\/p>\n

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Composition II 1996 Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997 ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Lent by The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Collection<\/a> 2015<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n

This in turn reminds me of the “wavy music” in Reynolds Stone<\/strong>‘s bookplate for my aunt Esther<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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But to return to that first image:<\/p>\n

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That’s an astonishing image of tohu-bohu<\/strong><\/em>, the “formless and void” just before creation as envisaged in Genesis. And here’s my point:<\/p>\n

This image is both patterned <\/strong><\/em>(with formal properties) and abstract<\/strong><\/em> (formless), as befits that great mirror<\/strong><\/em> in which all forms arise and fade away, and thus a superb image for complexity<\/strong><\/em>, which is both patterned like overlapping waves, and swirling beyond our comprehension..<\/p>\n

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Here’s R Cromb<\/strong>‘s version of tohu-bohu<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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And that of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493:<\/p>\n

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**<\/p>\n

Ah, for a breath of theology hovering above the waters, see Catherine Keller & a theology of chaos, Part 1<\/a> and, no doubt, Catherine Keller<\/strong>, The Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — from comix-pop to painting paint to a swirling portrait of complexity, aka tohu=bohu ] . Whoa boy, I had no idea Roy Lichtenstein ever painted anything like this: ** I knew, of course, that he’d painted blown-up mersions of comic frames: But that’s too easily “cool” to impress me much. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556,384,1626,526,9,1687,480,1479,1933,1589,1934,1,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-art","category-chaos","category-charles-cameron","category-complexity","category-mirror","category-music","category-ouroboros","category-paint","category-pop","category-tohu-bohu","category-uncategorized","category-void"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65454"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65508,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65454\/revisions\/65508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}