Cubist Still Life with Lemons

Cubist Still Life with Lemons (sometimes Still Life with Lemons) is a 1975 painting by Roy Lichtenstein.

Cubist Still Life with Lemons
Artist	Roy Lichtenstein
Year	1975
Dimensions	228.6 cm × 172.7 cm (90 in × 68 in)

Lichtenstein had a period of experimentation with still life painting from 1974 to 1976. Measuring 228.6 cm × 172.7 cm (90 in × 68 in), Still Life with Lemons represented a take on still life from the Cubist perspective, with Lichtenstein using many favorite Cubist motifs: "...pitcher, bowl of fruit, and faux wood grain - with some of his own, such as sections of the primary colors red, yellow, and blue, portions of an entablature, and a pattern of diagonal stripes."^[1] The work has an element of three-dimensionality due to its overlapping planes and reflection, although this still life series was meant to look flat.^[2] According to Jack Cowart, "...The scale of Lichtenstein's [Cubist still life] work is antithetical to the primarily intimate and more closely related nature of real Cubism."^[3]

See also

• 1975 in art