The Broad Museum (09/26/2019) - Part 6 Roy Lichtenstein

Thanks for checkin' out the Bsombin' blog! This is the half way mark, on our tour of the Broad museum. The museum is just a few days away from reopening. But, tickets are already sold out and more won't be available for a couple of weeks, last time I checked. I'm really excited to go back to the Broad, once it reopens. But in the mean time, we'll just keep looking at what it was like before the pandemic forced the museum to shut it's doors.

Before going to see the Infinity rooms, we were in the Edward Ruscha section of the museum and it was the fifth section we had gotten through. A section filled with Roy Lichtenstein's work was just outside of the section where the second Infinity room was. It was next to the Ruscha section, too. So my aunt and I continued our tour there and made it the sixth section of the tour. My aunt enjoyed seeing Lichtenstein's work, but it wasn't my favorite section of the museum. I did like the Rouen Cathedral a lot though. It was interesting how the image was created to be seen more from a distance than up close. The style he used made me think of stipple art and the half tones that are used to create gradients for silk screening. His work was painted and wasn't actually stipple, though. It was done with a dotting technique that was easier to make out from a distance than up close. I really liked the colors he used. And the way he played with the different color variations. Creating some with sharp contrast (making it easier to see the image) and some with slight contrast (making it harder to make out the image).

While I was waiting for my aunt to finish checkin' his work out, I noticed a little kid that was standing in line waiting to see the second Infinity room. He was taking pictures with his mom's camera. His mom and her friends (or family) were crackin' up watching him gettin' into taking the pictures. He looked like he was having so much fun playing with the camera. It was too cute. I couldn't help but get a candid shot of him, before moving on to the next section. 

 I have a lot of new content that has been piling up while we've been on this tour, since it's taking a little longer than expected to get through the Broad. So I'm going to be putting the next couple of sections together into one post. We're getting close to my favorite section of the Broad, too. So make sure to check back soon for more art, poetry, photography, and more!