Work to conserve Roy Lichtenstein’s Three Brushstrokes began in the early 2000s and was completed in 2011. The painstaking repainting process was captured in a timelapse video. Here users can use the image sequence viewer to scrub back and forth through time, painting an unpainting the sculpture.
Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923–1997). Three Brushstrokes, 1984. Object: 308.6 × 72.4 × 100.3 cm, 239.0456 kg (121 1/2 × 28 1/2 × 39 1/2 in., 527 lb.). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2005.111. Gift of Fran and Ray Stark. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.
Image sequence made up of 250 frames extracted from a timelapse video, originally taken every twenty seconds but stretched out here in order to limit the total number of images.
For more, see our book Roy Lichtenstein: Outdoor Painted Sculpture by Julie Wolfe, from the Artist’s Materials series.