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"[Roy Lichtenstein's] most famous image is arguably Whaam! (1963, Tate Modern, London), one of the earliest known examples of pop art, adapts a comic-book panel from a 1962 issue of DC Comics' All-American Men of War. The painting depicts a fighter aircraft firing a rocket into an enemy plane, with a dazzling red-and-yellow explosion. The cartoon style is heightened by the use of the onomatopoetic lettering 'WHAAM!' and the boxed caption 'I pressed the fire control... and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky...' This diptych is large in scale, measuring 1.7 x 4.0 m (5 ft 7 in x 13 ft 4 in)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein
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