Best Buddies 1991

Roy Lichtenstein made this screenprint, ‘Best Buddies’, in 1991, and it's buzzing with hard-edged shapes in primary colors and bold outlines. Just look at those crisp, clean lines and flat planes of color! There's yellow, white, black, blue, and red stripes, all neatly arranged, and they really do pop. Lichtenstein's probably thinking about design and mass production here; you can imagine him carefully choosing each color and shape to create something punchy and modern. It's kind of impersonal, but it's also full of energy. Think of those stripes! They show up in so much of his work, right? It's like he's always riffing on the same ideas. And that brings to mind other artists, too, like Ellsworth Kelly. The way he's playing with abstraction and clean lines; it's all part of this big conversation that artists have been having for years, bouncing ideas off each other and pushing things forward.