"I wanted to use painted lines as a road, pointing the way for the car. The design also shows the scenery through which the car has driven. You could call it a list of all the things a car experiences - the only difference is that this car mirrors all these things even before it takes to the road," says the late and great Roy Lichtenstein, as he talks about his then creation of what I call the “1977 BMW 320i RLE (Roy Lichtenstein Edition)”.
If you look more closely at Lichtenstein's art piece, you can recognize imagery of a passing landscape of green grass and fence posts. A sun is also represented on the door panels whose rays merge with speed lines. Also noticeable are the typical Ben-Day dots Lichtenstein is known to use in his works, like in his world-famous patings using comic book like imagery ( i.e. Drowning Girl ). The clip below provides a better visual on the art piece. If you look carfully on the old gentleman’s table you’ll see scale models of other BMW art cars: all of which have been designed by other famous artist…stay tuned for fure articles of those.
Lichtenstein’s car competed at the 24-hour race at Le Mans in 1977. It had placed second in its class and an impressive ninth overall in the race. This car is one of many BMW art cars designed by other well-know artist, and is still in possession by the good people of BMW…but it’s projected that Lichtenstein’s car and others like it will tour the states sometime before 2010, before heading back to Europe.
~Ronski
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