I have been watching a lot of Battlestar Galactica recently and was inspired to draw an image of a spaceship with another exploding in the background. The image I saw in my head greatly reminded me of “Wham!” by Roy Lichtenstein, that famous pop artist guy form the 1950s-on. Lichtenstein controversially knocked off a bunch of comic strips and claimed his copies to be altered enough to present a new context and meaning. Roy really didn’t do much more than make the paintings really big, which has an effect, and change all of them to the primary color palette. I think this is lazy on his creative part. I decided to do some copies of the copies that Lichtenstein created. I had fun changing them, yet I tried to retain the recognizability of the image in relation to the original work. Here are the first five, starting with the space ship one, and I hope to do more later:
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