Despite the apparently direct relationship between his art and the cartoon sources, Roy Lichtenstein described his process of selecting and transforming images as one of "seeing, composing, and unifying." His drawings reflect how deftly and freely he could adjust the balance of forms, color, line, and detail; these measured studies for paintings were scaled up and projected onto canvas to be enlarged and redrawn.

This process led him to adopt the use of benday dots, which quickly became his signature mark. Just as in the comics, Lichtenstein used these dots in his paintings to convey surface, tone, shading, and form; yet unlike the mechanically printed originals, Lichtenstein's dots were painted by hand on canvas with brush or stencil.

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Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde), is a 16th-century oil painting on poplar wood by Leonardo da Vinci and is, perhaps, the most famous painting in Western art history or even the world. Few other works of art are as romanticised, celebrated, or reproduced.

The original is owned by the French government and hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The painting shows a woman looking out at the viewer with what is described as an "enigmatic smile," which you can now marvel at on your computer.

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In the 1970’s Andy Warhol had began to attract an increasing amount of portrait commissions; the sitters of these predominately the wealthy and famous likes of actors, models, royalty, and society figures. Having their image glorified by Warhol was one way of seeking affirmation of their status as a celebrity.

On the other hand, being put through this ‘Warhol treatment’ blurred their image into a uniformed mass of brightly-coloured ‘pop’ faces. Warhol’s Skull series, produced during this same period, acted as a counter-image to these glamorous portraits, bringing awareness to the fact that underneath all of the trappings of beauty and wealth, everyone is equal and is bound by the same destiny.

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Bring one of Dali's most famous paintings on your desktop. The Great Masturbator was painted in 1929 by Salvador Dali, just before meeting Gala. His needs in Paris by that time became his grief. This painting is a self-portrait where sexual desires and fears are reflected. By then Dalí was still a virgin. Among several symbols, the following ones stand out: the grasshopper, who terrified Salvador; the head of a lion alluding repressed desires; and a flower-vessel that near the chest of the woman, hopes to be filled.

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