Purist Painting in Yellows 1975

Roy Lichtenstein made this "Purist Painting in Yellows" using hard edges and flat planes of color, including his signature Ben-Day dots. I like to imagine the careful, methodical way that Roy might have approached making this painting. I wonder if he was thinking about the way that Fernand Léger reduced forms to their essence in order to portray the beauty of modern machines. I can see how these cylindrical shapes and blocks of color, which are mostly yellow, are in dialogue with Léger. But Roy is doing something very different with those comic-book dots. That bold yellow, stark black, pure white, and the smattering of dots, create a tension, a rhythm. The dots create a kind of depth and movement, suggesting a play between flatness and illusion. I wonder, who else might be thinking about these problems?