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Fine Print: Roy Lichtenstein. New York City, 1992

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Fine Print: Roy Lichtenstein. New York City, 1992

Fine Print: Roy Lichtenstein. New York City, 1992

Hoepker made his first of many visits to Roy Lichtenstein’s studio in the early 1980s while working on a series about American pop artists and naturally, Lichtenstein was on his hit list. During one visit, Hoepker became intrigued by one picture in particular. ā€œIt showed nothing but the back of a yellow painted stretcher with the canvas stretched and dabbed with black and white grid dots – the picture of a picture, but only on the back,ā€ says Hoepker. ā€œI understood the grinning irony of this cool depiction. Lichtenstein had brought the idea of painting to the grid point, so to speak – the pure essence of pop art.ā€ Hoepker found several rolls of red plastic foil with punched holes in a corner of the studio. ā€œI understood that Roy used these stencils to apply his accurate raster structures on screens,ā€ he says. ā€œI asked him to sit down for a moment in front of his stretcher frame and look directly through the red foil in my lens. He agreed with a smile and gave away a small trade secret – the trick with which he painted his grid. I later named the photo ā€œDouble Popā€.

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Hoepker made his first of many visits to Roy Lichtenstein’s studio in the early 1980s while working on a series about American pop artists and naturally, Lichtenstein was on his hit list. During one visit, Hoepker became intrigued by one picture in particular. ā€œIt showed nothing but the back of a yellow painted stretcher with the canvas stretched and dabbed with black and white grid dots – the picture of a picture, but only on the back,ā€ says Hoepker. ā€œI understood the grinning irony of this cool depiction. Lichtenstein had brought the idea of painting to the grid point, so to speak – the pure essence of pop art.ā€ Hoepker found several rolls of red plastic foil with punched holes in a corner of the studio. ā€œI understood that Roy used these stencils to apply his accurate raster structures on screens,ā€ he says. ā€œI asked him to sit down for a moment in front of his stretcher frame and look directly through the red foil in my lens. He agreed with a smile and gave away a small trade secret – the trick with which he painted his grid. I later named the photo ā€œDouble Popā€.

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