Drowning Girl (also known as Secret Hearts or I Don't Care! I'd Rather Sink) is a 1963 American painting in oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas by Roy Lichtenstein, based on original art by Tony Abruzzo. The painting is considered among Lichtenstein's most significant works, perhaps on a par with his acclaimed 1963 diptych Whaam!. One of the most representative paintings of the pop art movement, Drowning Girl was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 1971.
The painting has been described as a "masterpiece of melodrama", and is one of the artist's earliest images depicting women in tragic situations, a theme to which he often returned in the mid-1960s. It shows a teary-eyed woman on a turbulent sea. She is emotionally distressed, seemingly from a romance. Using the conventions of comic book art, a thought bubble reads: "I Don't Care! I'd Rather Sink — Than Call Brad For Help!" This narrative element highlights the clichéd melodrama, while its graphics — including Ben-Day dots that echo the effect of the printing process — reiterate Lichtenstein's theme of painterly work that imitates mechanized reproduction. The work is derived from a 1962 DC Comics panel; both the graphical and narrative elements of the work are cropped from the source image. It also borrows from Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa and from elements of modernist artists Jean Arp and Joan Miró. It is one of several Lichtenstein works that mention a character named Brad who is absent from the picture.
DrowningGirl (also known as Secret Hearts or I Don't Care! I'd Rather Sink) is a 1963 American painting in oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas...
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were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. Whaam!, DrowningGirl, and Look Mickey proved to be his most influential works. His most expensive...
University of Chicago Press. p. 156. ISBN 0226772292. DrowningGirl Lichtenstein. "Crying Girl". LichtensteinFoundation.org. Retrieved June 10, 2013....
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Castelli Gallery from September 28 to October 24, 1963 that included DrowningGirl, Torpedo...Los!, Baseball Manager, Conversation, and Whaam! Marketing...
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known works, such as DrowningGirl (1963), which was appropriated from the lead story in DC Comics' Secret Hearts #83. (DrowningGirl is part of the collection...
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ISBN 978-0-8065-2661-4. Racial profiling | The San Diego Union-Tribune Zip Rescues DrowningGirl | Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 29, 1925 Colin Campbell (director), David...
its surface. Local legend tells the story of Stacey Graves, a young Indian girl who was accused of being a witch. Stacey cannot enter the waters of the lake...
group Not Drowning, Waving take their name from the poem. A track on Julian Cope's 1991 album Peggy Suicide was titled "Not Raving but Drowning" after the...
caught). |15 years |Assam |- |2007 |Babita |Saved several schoolmates from drowning when their school bus fell into the Western Yamuna canal. She was studying...
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compares her emotionally to Roy Lichtenstein's romantic subjects such as DrowningGirl despite her angelic swagger and chutzpah. Staff writer David Hiltbrand...
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