Moonscape (from the 11 Pop Artists portfolio, Volume I), 1965
Signed, dated and numbered from an edition of 200
20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm.)
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Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) was one of the leading figures of American Pop Art, best known for transforming the visual language of comic strips and commercial printing into large-scale, ironic paintings and prints. Drawing on Ben-Day dots, bold outlines, and flat primary colors, he mimicked and exaggerated the look of cheap mechanical reproduction to question what counts as “high” art. In the early to mid-1960s, Lichtenstein applied this vocabulary not only to romance and war comics but also to landscapes and seascapes, often reducing natural scenes to a few crisp, graphic elements. Printmaking was central to his practice, giving him a direct way to engage with the mass-production processes he was parodying and elevating.
Moonscape (from the 11 Pop Artists portfolio, Volume I), 1965, is a screenprint in colors on blue Rowlux—an industrial, lenticular-like plastic that shimmers and appears to shift as the viewer moves. Signed, dated, and numbered from an edition of 200, the work measures 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm). Against the subtly moving blue ground, Lichtenstein arranges a simplified, cartoon-like lunar horizon in bold white and black, turning the idea of a moon landscape into a sleek, almost abstract graphic. The use of Rowlux is crucial: it heightens the sense of artificiality while also suggesting the flicker of light across a distant, otherworldly surface. In this way, Moonscape captures Lichtenstein’s Pop strategy perfectly—an image of outer space rendered through the visual clichés and synthetic materials of mid-century consumer culture.
