Page 34 - Studio International - January 1968

Step-on can with leg (diptych)
1961
oil on canvas
32 x 53 in.
Robert Fraser Gallery, London

Each page is another story told in a new way. Rosen- two-panel pictures, even the diptych Step-on can where
quist, Wesselman, Kitaj and Peter Blake tend to make an action is demonstrated in two successive frames, don't
their statements in this discretely sequenced way, but deny this principle—nor does the use of text in balloons;
Lichtenstein opposes the narrative character of his the image is always treated as a totality.
sources, the progressive frames of a real comic strip, by Most art of the past accepted a role as provider of a
making his pictures a completely integrated whole. His simulation of direct visual experience of nature—until the

Ball of twine 1963
acrylic on canvas
15 x 12 ½ in.
Coll: Mrs Ethel Kraushar,
Long Island

Far right
Golf ball 1962
oil on canvas
32 x 32 in.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York