Takka Takka, Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtensteins comics were predominantly war or romance themed. Lichtenstein did many comic style images depicting scenes of war. Some of these were Whaam (1963), Takka Takka (1962) and As I Opened Fire (1964). Lichtenstein said this of his war paintings: “A minor purpose of my war paintings is to put military aggressiveness in an absurd light. My personal opinion is that much of our foreign policy has been unbelievably terrifying, but this is not what my work is about and I don’t want to capitalize on this popular position. My work is more about our American definition of images and

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