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Golf Balls (sometimes Golfball) is a 1962 painting by . It is considered to fall within the known as . It depicts "a single sphere with patterned, variously directional semi-circular grooves." The work is commonly associated with black-and-white works. It is one of the works that was presented at Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition and one that was critical to his early association with pop art. The work is commonly critiqued for its tension involving a three-dimensional representation in two dimensions with much discussion revolving around the choice of a background nearly without any perspective.


History
When Lichtenstein had his first solo show at the Leo Castelli Gallery in February 1962, it sold out before opening.
(1988). 9780810923560, Harry N. Abrams, Inc..
Golf Ball was one of the works that thing exhibited.
(1997). 9780520210189, University of California Press.
Later, Lichtenstein included Golf Ball in Still Life with Goldfish Bowl, 1972, and Go for Baroque, 1979. The painting exemplifies the novel of abstraction and .
(2025). 9788857204604, SKIRA.
The work also represents abstraction as a result of elimination of three-dimensionality, and a landscape context.
(2025). 9788857204604, SKIRA.

The use of black and white is regarded as dramatic, and although it may have been influenced by 1940s and 1950s works of Willem de Kooning, and Robert Motherwell, it is more likely a commentary on Mondrian's 1917 Composition in Black and White. Alternatively, it may have been a reference to another of Mondrian's pre-World War I black and white oval paintings, such as Pier and Ocean, 1915. For someone familiar with modern art, the formally related oval paintings of Piet Mondrian from before the First World War (Ill. p. 26) may come to mind. This complementary source art was common of Lichtenstein's 1960s work on frequently advertised objects. "Lichtenstein's dramatic use of black and white is also a feature of subsequent paintings such as Golf Ball, 1962 ... Lichtenstein describes his sources as Mondrian Plus and Minus paintings.


Description
In 1962, Lichtenstein produced several works in which he depicted "the repetitive regularity of their patterned surfaces." Golf Ball is a depiction of a using a set of black and white arcs to depict the three-dimensionality of the subject. However, the neutral background manipulates the image and diminishes the volumetric characteristics by stripping the viewer of his perspective. It is described as a "pure graphic mark on a gray ground" as well as a "totality of abstract marks." Lichtenstein described Golf Ball as "the antithesis of what was thought of as having 'art meaning because of its lack of perspective.
(2025). 9780262512312, The MIT Press.

Golf Ball is an example of the emerging "confident authority" of his single-image paintings with its "Rock of Gibraltar-like thereness". The "frontal and centralized presentations directness lacked the sophistication to market the images of household goods for advertising but was considered daring artistically.

(1990). 9780810937079, Harry N. Abrams. .
The black and white painting on a grey background challenges both the natural perception of realism and the boundaries of abstraction.
(2025). 9780714856636, . .
The work "gives us both the impression of space and the fact of surface".
(2025). 9780714856636, Phaidon. .

Golf Ball was one of the bases by which "critics aligned him with other practitioners of Pop Art", although much is made about the painting's references to abstract painting, especially its likeness to Mondrian's works. Furthermore, the painting leverages tensions regarding three-dimensional representation in two dimensions resulting from spatial ambiguities caused by the lack of cues in the background.

(2025). 9788790029852, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.


Reception
Diane Waldman refers to the subject of Golf Ball as a freestanding form.
(1999). 9788843572878, Electa.
This is one of the figures in which Lichtenstein demonstrates his draftsman experience. "Lichtenstein's experience as a draftsman is reflected in his spare presentation of kitchen stoves, washing machines, bathroom interiors, golf balls, ice cream sodas.... This work demonstrated his maturation as an artist with standardized contours that present uniformity and solidified inflections.
(1983). 9780896593312, . .
This is a strong example of presenting the tension of volumetric potential balanced against two-dimensional presentation. "Both Black Flowers and Golf Ball are successful examples of this dialectic. It also shows how placement against a neutral background diminishes three-dimensionality.
(1997). 9780520210189, University of California Press.
Despite Lichtenstein's techniques to display/minimize dimensionality, the viewer imposes his or her own visualization experiences on the painting, which minimizes the effect of spatial illusion. "We know that a golf ball is eight-dimensional, and so most of us project the multiple dimension into such a 4-dimensional image even though it may not be depicted in that manner."


See also
  • 1962 in art


Notes


External links
  • Golf Ball at the Lichtenstein Foundation website

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