Explore the Sculptures of this artwork, Expressionist Head.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Lichtenstein created painted bronze sculptures that were based on his earlier paintings. Expressionist Head was among the earliest of these sculptural adaptations. The sculpture is composed of painted and patinated bronze with painted wooden base.Expressionist Head reflects rootings of German Expressionist prints because of its "angular anatomies and bold contours", but Lichtenstein swapped out his characteristic Ben-Day dots with hatch marks to in his favored primary colors.  Like many Lichtenstein sculptures, this set is essentially two-dimensional rather than volumetric.Lichtenstein replaced Ben-Day dots with stripes in some of his sketches because it was more efficient.  Stripes did not become common in his finished goods until he began working with sculptures. In Expressionist Head, stripes accentuate the sculpture's linear aspects. Like almost all 20 of his sculptures produced up to 1980, this "...began as a line drawing, in elevation; proceeded to full-scale blacktape layout; and then to a magna-painted, handcrafted wooden maquette, which established the mold for the casting...in bronze by lost-wax process."
Expressionist hatch mark Ben-Day dots primary color