Where to See Girl with Ball: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Roy Lichtenstein painted the Girl with Ball in 1961, based on a hotel advertisement in the New York Times. A young woman in a bathing suit holds a beach ball above her head, rendered in the Ben-Day dots of commercial printing.

Lichtenstein enlarged and stylized the throwaway image, transforming commercial art into fine art. The thick black outlines and limited color palette mimic cheap printing processes. This early work established his signature style before he moved to comic book sources. It hangs in MoMA.

Lichtenstein based it on a newspaper advertisement for Mount Airy Lodge resort in the Poconos. He found the image in the New York Times and enlarged it into a painting.

Ben-Day dots are a printing technique using small colored dots to create tones. Comics and cheap printing used them. Lichtenstein painted them by hand, mimicking mechanical reproduction.

Roy Lichtenstein the thick black outlines and limited color palette mimic cheap printing processes. This early work established his signature style before he moved to comic book sources.

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