Audio Tour Stop 25

Look Mickey, Roy Lichtenstein

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快看米老鼠

利希滕斯坦

这幅《快看米老鼠》可能是罗伊·利希滕斯坦首次针对流行文化进行改编创作，他取材的灵感来自于 1960 年的儿童读物《唐老鸭：失而复得》中的场景和风格。利希滕斯坦巧妙地修改了原作，使其画风更加统一，包括省略了背景图、把视角旋转 90 度、使用黄色和蓝色为主色调，并简化了角色的形貌。在风格上，利希滕斯坦模仿了印刷制品的风格，包括使用厚重的黑色轮廓和原色，并在唐老鸭的眼睛和米老鼠的面部上，使用了本戴制版印刷工艺的墨点；这种工艺在当时用于印刷便宜的漫画书和杂志。

Look Mickey (Chinese)
The Disney cartoon characters, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, fish off a dock in this horizontal painting. The scene and characters are painted entirely flat areas of canary yellow, cobalt blue, tomato red, and white. To our left, Donald leans over the edge of the dock with his feet spread and duckbill hanging open. He has a white body outlined in blue, big eyes filled with a pattern of tiny blue dots, and yellow feet and duckbill. He wears a blue sailor’s hat and jacket with a red bow tie and yellow circles indicating buttons. He holds a fishing pole with an oval, red bobber near the fishhook high over his head. The pole has bent back with the fishhook snagged on the back hem of Donald’s jacket. A white speech bubble over Donald’s head is outlined in blue, and blue text inside reads, “LOOK MICKEY, I’VE HOOKED A BIG ONE!!” Mickey stands to our right, covering his smiling mouth with his left hand, on our right, and holding an upright fishing pole with the other hand. His round face is filled with a pattern of tiny red dots, and his curving hairline and ears are blue. He wears blue pants, a red shirt and shoes, and white gloves. The dock is mostly yellow with a white area on the right. Its planks and three white, round posts supporting it are outlined in blue. Rippling water surrounding the dock is defined by wavy lines and undulating bands of blue against a yellow background. The artist signed his initials in the lower left, “rfl.”
Roy Lichtenstein, Look Mickey, 1961, oil on canvas, Gift of Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.41.1

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