I know very little about this make up session, other than it was done by M.A.C.. It is pretty impressive to see the blonde girl from Lichtenstein’s painting in real life.
Update (Feb. 13th, 2010): This was done for a Halloween make-up session by M.A.C artist Karin Stone, in Chicago, IL. Information provided by viewer sjstone at BoingBoing.
Make-up art based from paintings by Roy Lichtenstein:
Top: “Crying Girl” (1963) by Roy Lichtenstein. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
“Crying Girl” (1964) by Roy Lichtenstein. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Link via Geekologie
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26 Responses to “The Real life Lichtenstein-Comic-Girl”
Nov 01, 2009 1
sivakumarHey Amazing pa… i love it it’s very beautiful to me
Nov 23, 2009 2
TimLove the trouble you went to and the result of this comic girl. I used to be a graphic artist for a famous publisher of comic books !
Love
Tim
Dec 11, 2009 3
benLichtenstein stole that idea from a comic book published 5 years before he made his artwork. The comic book he stole it from was in production during the late 1940′s through to the mid-1950′s.
Jan 26, 2010 4
dknypg83wow, what big earings she has…
nice!!
Jan 30, 2010 5
KevinBeautiful makeup!
Feb 11, 2010 6
Alex@3: Lichtenstein stole this like Andy Warhol stole the Campbell’s soup can. That’s pop art, my friend.
Feb 11, 2010 7
FranHey ben, no art is created in a vacuum. Of course everything is “stolen”. Lichtenstein made it popular and that is why his name is on it.
Feb 11, 2010 8
ToddThere’s no such thing as a “Lichtenstein-Comic-Girl.” That would imply Lichtenstein had originality.
Feb 12, 2010 9
AdrianaNo one is referring to “originality,” however, the artist is known for his comic art paintings and that is relevant in the news post. Thanks for your comment.
Feb 12, 2010 10
SteveHere is a set of step-by-step instructions to recreate the Lichtenstein look. It also credits the MAC artist who created it, Karin Stone in Chicago, IL.
http://www.lolocohen.com/tag/roy-lichtenstein/
Feb 12, 2010 11
willYou mean he appropriated the images from comic books made in the 40′s and 50′s. Lichtenstein never claimed that they were original drawings of his, but rather he borrowed images from “low-brow” art and turned it into “high-brow” art. Much like Warhol’s soup can prints, Lichtenstein’s work was based on the premise that the division between low and high art was largely pointless.
For more see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein
Feb 12, 2010 12
Joseph FrancisMakeup artist Jennifer Corona’s version is pretty well known.
http://www.myspace.com/jennifercorona
Feb 12, 2010 13
ylinI saw a Lichtenstein-Comic Girl (7 hours of work) this past Halloween on the L-train in Brooklyn. She was perfect! http://ylphoto.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/marked/
Feb 12, 2010 14
JesseI love this post, but the lack of direct links is annoying. Where are your sources? Neither of your links to MAC or Geekologie are direct links. Please update.
Feb 13, 2010 15
AdrianaThanks for the comments. There has been an update.
Feb 13, 2010 16
prototype carsOh my good, she is looking very nice.
Feb 13, 2010 17
JesseAwesome, thanks for updating
Mar 03, 2010 18
JimI always wondered at some of the things that are considered to be “high brow,” and I for one never understood the appeal of a smuck like Warhol. Lichtenstein was at the very least a competent cartoonist and probably a very good one.
But… high end art?
Mar 05, 2010 19
lexiIt shows where Lady Gaga got her current look from…
Apr 04, 2010 20
LadyGagMoNsTerAnd now we know where did Lady Gaga’s VERY blond hair look came from.
Apr 10, 2010 21
knowItAllI would have preferred to see smaller dots on the face which truly mimic the half tone effect. Color me unimpressed.
Apr 25, 2010 22
JasonGood old Lichtenstein. Would be pretty cool if they did this as a performance piece too.
May 17, 2010 23
nitroAmazing blow up!
Jun 04, 2010 24
TokioPunk483I thought that was Lady Gaga at first. I wanna try that with my makeup now. XD
Jun 10, 2010 25
very funnyLike Lady Gaga.
Jun 21, 2010 26
Richard Calvert*Marcel Duchamp, is the ‘Champion’ of the
ready-made! As he so eloquently noted that
inventions ie. especially U.S. inventions have an
artistic beauty built into them, their ‘Fine Art!’
Put them in a museum and it changes the way
we perceive them, they become important and
valuable, being on public display gives them an
‘Aura of the Artistic’. Pop Art symbolized it’s
time, and our consumer society, by showing us
also that products are the end of a long process
of design and development. They speak to us as
individuals and just mere numbers in a massive
consumption of need in our everyday lives. We
can’t get away from Advertising any more than we
can soon get away from oil and gas or even this
planet, and living on the moon or Mars. It’s all a
part of who we are and our art had become US!!