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The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Oil on canvas.

Sometimes instead of beauties and couples in love from comics, inanimate objects appear as the central character in the paintings by Roy Lichtenstein. Most often, these are various “smart” machines – housekeepers, which are not only convenient but also prestigious house items. Having made a stove, a washing machine, a grill, and even a spray can with deodorant objects of art, Lichtenstein consciously rejected the generally accepted notions that an artist should depict only obscure philosophical subjects in his paintings. These works expand the concept of creativity and blur the boundaries between sublime art and everyday life.