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It seems like a visit to the MFA is in order! Certainly having the opportunity to see "Drowning Girl" and work by artists inspired by the iconic Hokusai "Great Wave" is worth a trip. Share your thoughts if you check it out ~

Did you know that the waves in Roy Lichtenstein's iconic "Drowning Girl" are an intentional nod to Hokusai's "Great Wave?" 🌊

The celebrated pop artist lifted the imagery of "Drowning Girl" from Tony Abruzzo’s illustration for “Run for Love!” in "Secret Hearts" no. 83 (November 1962). Magnifying his original source and cropping the frame significantly, Lichtenstein emphasizes the swirling seascape enveloping his heroine.

This iconic work, on loan from MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, is on view in "Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence" through July 16! Through more than 300 works, the exhibition looks at Hokusai from the viewpoint of many other artists who interacted with him—during his lifetime and beyond: https://bit.ly/41khvOC

💧: Roy Lichtenstein, "Drowning Girl" (1963), oil and acrylic on canvas, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Philip Johnson Fund (by exchange) and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bagley Wright, 1971. Accession Number: 685.1971. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY.

Wonderful, just amazing! An incredible space for the incubation of new and creative ideas. Bravo 👏🏻

Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio Becomes Home to an Artistic Community The pop master’s estate, a longtime friend of the Whitney Museum, will donate his Greenwich Village studio to the museum’s Independent Study Program. It will open next year.

The 19th century. Where to begin? So many changes occurred over the course of that century, many inspired by the Industrial Revolution. I could post work more aligned with the previous century; or by Ingres, perhaps one of the last great academic painters; or the poetic work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; or from other styles and movements like Orientalism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, or from the American Renaissance. Architecture too, with the creation of the Otis elevator and hence, the skyscraper. What about Gaudi in Barcelona? The list is endless. So here is a piece created in the middle of the century that is symbolic (to me) of all the change wrought that century. The Crystal Palace, a grand steel and glass structure designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the First Great Exhibition of 1851, in Hyde Park, London. It is the place where ideas about art, science and culture first had global reach, and opened up the world in a way not previously imagined.

Western art in the 18th century was characterized by two contradictory movements - Rococo and Neoclassicism. These two images illustrate just how much these styles diverged. Francois Boucher's "Allegory of Painting", 1765 (National Gallery of Art, DC), with it cotton candy colors and lush idealized beauty; and Jacques-Louis David's "Death of Socrates", 1787 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY), based on Plato's description, the drama rendered in dark brooding tone and expression. Both artists were French but they couldn't have been more different. I don't think I have a favorite work from this century. Do you have any to share?