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  • Silent Treatment

    In the Car by Roy Lichtenstein, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

    A member of the Pop Art movement of the 1960’s Lichtenstein found influence in the American comic book which he transferred to a large scale including the use of the printing process. Comic book illustrations are made up of millions of small dots in a process known as Ben Day.

  • Smarty

    AK 47 Kalashnikov, multicolor original gun with applied Smarties by Kata Legrady from her Guns and Candies series.
    AK 47 Kalashnikov, multicolor original gun with applied Smarties by Kata Legrady from her Guns and Candies series.

    Kata Legrady began a series of artworks in 2008 where she applied candies like Smarties to different weapons. She thought the candies evoked the Ben-Day technique used by Roy Lichtenstein in his comic book referencing art and by “covering” and in a sense hiding the firearm or other weapon, it loses its ferocity and power.