Bull Head III
1973
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color lithograph, screenprint, and line-cut on Arjomari wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 63.5 × 83.82 cm (25 × 33 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David Gensburg
Accession Number
1983.71.23
Art Historical Context
**Bull Head III** by Roy Lichtenstein, in 1973, the artist's signature Pop Art style, which drew inspiration from comic books, advertising, and mass media. Lichtenstein transformed everyday imagery into bold, graphic statements using thick black outlines, primary colors, and Ben-Day dots—a technique mimicking commercial printing. This print, the third in his *Bull Head* series,ills the powerful form of a bull's head into a stylized, iconic composition, blending high art with popular culture during the height of the Pop movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Printed as a color lithograph, screenprin...
About the Artist
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in New York City to Milton Lichtenstein, a real estate broker, and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein, a homemaker with musical training, in an upper-middle-class German-Jewish family. Growing up on the Upper West Side, he displayed early artistic talent, sketching jazz musicians and visiting museums like the Museum of Modern Art. In 1939, he studied painti...