Lichtenstein mined existing comic book panels and painted them worse. If that’s too subjective of a statement, you could say he painted them in a more simplisti

Lichtenstein mined existing comic book panels and painted them worse. If that’s too subjective of a statement, you could say he painted them in a more simplistic and machine-like fashion. The art world of the time thought that the very idea of emphasizing low-brow art’s disreputability was in itself high art. The art speculation world agreed, and Liechtenstein made nice bank, as did many speculators. What these claims fail to take into account is that the buyers never cared about the “source material”. If they did, 1960s romance comics would have a multi-million dollar market today. I don’t care for most of pop art, and certainly not Liechtenstein, but these types of allegations seem to deliberately misunderstand its appeal.