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Roy Lichtenstein - Girl with Ball, 1961. Oil on canvas 

From MOMA, New York Ciy: 

Lichtenstein took the image for Girl with Ball straight from an advertisement for a hotel in New York’s Pocono Mountains. In pirating it, however, he transformed the photographic image, using a painter’s version of the techniques of the comic-strip artist. The resulting simplifications intensify the artifice of the picture, concentrating its careful evocation of fun in the sun. The girl’s round mouth is more doll-like than female; any sex appeal she had has become as plastic as her beach ball.

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