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Takka Takka is a 1962 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein in his comic book style of using Ben-Day dots and a story panel. This work is held in the collection of the Museum Ludwig.[1] The title comes from the onomatopoeic graphics that depict the sound that comes from a machine gun.[2]

Takka Takka
Artist	Roy Lichtenstein
Year	1962 (1962)
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	142.2 cm × 172.7 cm (56 in × 68 in)
Location	Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Background

Lichtenstein was a trained United States Army pilot, draftsman and artist as well as a World War II (WWII) veteran who never saw active combat.[3][4] The work depicts a machine gun firing as it is situated above the camouflage of palm fronds during the Battle of Guadalcanal. The image shows shell casings and a grenade in mid flight. An explosion is stylized with the titular phrase.[2] The source of Takka Takka is the comic book Battlefield Action #40 (February 1962, Charlton Comics Group).[5]

Lichtenstein's reinterpretation of the original comic image eliminates the horizon line and other indications of depth of field.[2] He also eliminates the human element by removing a hand, a helmet and the Japanese rising sun emblem.[2]

When the characters in some of his works, e.g. Takka Takka, Whaam! and Okay Hot-Shot, Okay!, were criticised for being militaristic, Lichtenstein responded: "the heroes depicted in comic books are fascist types, but I don't take them seriously in these paintings—maybe there is a point in not taking them seriously, a political point. I use them for purely formal reasons."[6]

Critical response

The Washingtonian critic Sophie Gilbert, regards Takka Takka (along with Bratatat!) as exemplary of Lichtenstein's "aggressive, hyper-masculine war paintings" due to the depiction of the guns creating sound effects and the use of onomatopoeic words during military conflict.[7]

Takka Takka, with its disruption of the primary narrative clause by text focused on absent details about the past or omitted present, is described as "the most unlikely conjunction of picture and story".[8] The work is regarded as one in which Lichtenstein exaggerated comic book sound effects in common pop art style.[9]

In the view of critic Steven Weisenburger, Lichtenstein's reimagining creates a tension between the narrative and graphical content because the "exhausted soldiers" are absent. Takka Takka is a subversion of the interpretive conventions of "pop" culture, "but more important, it interrogates a shared idea about war, that war's sublime violence heroizes."[2] Implicitly comparing Takka Takka to Picasso's Guernica, art historian Klaus Honnef states that the work's use of the "cartoon idiom in combination with elements of written language" demonstrates that art does not have to present the horrors of war graphically in order to be forceful.[10]

See also

• 1962 in art

References

External links

• Lichtenstein Foundation website

На других языках

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[de] Takka Takka

Takka Takka ist ein Gemälde des amerikanischen Künstlers Roy Lichtenstein aus dem Jahr 1962. Das 173 × 143 cm große Bild befindet sich im Museum Ludwig in Köln. Lichtenstein stellte in diesem Bild die Mündung eines feuernden Maschinengewehrs im für ihn typischen Comicstil dar.

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- [en] Takka Takka (Lichtenstein)

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[ru] Такка-такка

«Такка-такка» (англ. Takka Takka) — картина в стиле поп-арт, созданная американским художником Роем Лихтенштейном в 1962 году. Она выполнена в стиле комикса с использованием техники Бен-Дей. Картина хранится в коллекции Музея Людвига[1]. Название произведения происходит от ономатопеического слова «Takka», изображённому на ней графически и имитирующему звук, который исходит от работающего пулемёта[2].

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