Whaam! (Tate Gallery Edition) | Roy Lichtenstein (Right Panel) Original RETNA Artwork The enlarged format transforms the

The enlarged format transforms the relationship between image and viewer — the text reads differently at this scale

graphic confidence

when you surround it with the visual language of the street rather than the silence of the gallery

Original mixed media

whose polka dots and bow have made her one of the most recognisable figures in global popular culture

Whaam! (Tate Gallery Edition) | Roy Lichtenstein (Right Panel) Original RETNA Artwork The enlarged format transforms theRoy Lichtenstein (19231997) Whaam! Tate Gallery Edition (Right Panel) Offset lithograph The right panel of Whaam! the explosion itself, the moment of impact rendered in the bold primaries and heavy black outlines of the comic book tradition is the image that has entered the cultural imagination most completely. The word WHAAM! arcing above the fireball, the rocket's trajectory implied by the debris: Lichtenstein understood that the comic book artist