i’ve never really had much of an opinion one way or another about the pop-art-saint roy lichtenstein. if pressed i’d most likely lean toward an “eh” with an accompanying shrug. perhaps, as is often said of all sorts of pop artifacts, it’s the shifted context which kept me from ever feeling much interest in his work. you know, the ol’ “now we are used to such things, but if you could have seen it when it came out!” anyhow, i came across some images from a project called, well, the lichtenstein project. a guy named david barsalou, a die hard lichtenstein fan, went through over 30,000 old comics to trace roy’s source material. he then cropped the images and made large scale digital prints which he displayed at a Massachusetts gallery. i’m really surprised at how directly they were copied in many cases, cropping aside. i have to say, all in all, i prefer the originals. as for the thumbnail above, well, i couldn’t resist. click on it to see the real thing.