• Whaam! is a 1963 diptych painting by the American artist Roy Lichtenstein. It is one of the best-known works of pop art, and among Lichtenstein's most...
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    paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. Whaam!, Drowning Girl, and Look Mickey proved to be his most influential works...
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  • Treacy opted for even more artistic control by setting up their own label, WHAAM! Records. At the same time, recorded as a proposed Teenage Filmstars' debut...
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    Trade) Mummy Your Not Watching Me (1982, Whaam! Records) They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles (1982, Whaam! Records) The Painted Word (1984, Illuminated...
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  • Trade) Mummy Your Not Watching Me (1982, Whaam! Records) They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles (1982, Whaam! Records) The Painted Word (1984, Illuminated...
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  • cassette on his own In Phaze label in 1981. It was released on vinyl by Whaam! Records in 1981 and then by Cherry Red Records in 1987 and 2014. The albums...
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  • that of Kiss. Their first single was "The Druids Are Here, " released on Whaam Records in 1982. They released no further records until 1985, but a four-track...
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  • Kubert, and Irv Novick. Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's famous 1963 work Whaam! is based on a Jerry Grandenetti panel from the cover of All-American Men...
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  • then re-released by Dan Treacy of Television Personalities for his label Whaam! Records. In October 1981, Thorn moved to Hull to attend university, and...
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  • 2013 The Summer Exhibition: BBC Arts at the Royal Academy BBC Two 2013 Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern BBC Four 2014 Constable: A Country Rebel...
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  • New York City Wham!, a UK music programme by Jack Good, started in 1960 Whaam!, a Roy Lichtenstein painting D. Wham, a member of the Thornliebank F.C...
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    listed as the longest palindromic word in The Oxford English Dictionary. Whaam! (1963) by Roy Lichtenstein is an early example of pop art, featuring a...
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  • most significant works, perhaps on a par with his acclaimed 1963 diptych Whaam!. One of the most representative paintings of the pop art movement, Drowning...
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    Following a brief parting with Rough Trade, they launched their own label Whaam! Records with Mummy Your Not Watching Me (1981), They Could Have Been Bigger...
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  • band U2. Snap, Crackle and Pop, advertising mascots for branded cereal. Whaam!, pop art painting drawing from onomatopoeia in superhero comics (in this...
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    same venue. The band released their first single, "Songs for Children," on Whaam! Records in 1982, followed by their tape "Entertaining Edward" that same...
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  • included Drowning Girl, Torpedo...Los!, Baseball Manager, Conversation, and Whaam! Marketing materials for the show included the lithograph artwork, Crak...
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  • repositioning the second and third panels for better alignment. Along with Whaam! (the other of his monumental war paintings), this is regarded as the culmination...
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    ISBN 978-0-393-04401-0. Lichtenstein, Roy. "Whaam!". Tate Collection. Retrieved 27 January 2008. Lichtenstein, Roy. "Whaam!". Roy Lichtenstein Foundation website...
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  • painting. Although many sources, such as the Encyclopedia of Art, describe Whaam! and Drowning Girl as Lichtenstein's most famous works, artist Vian Shamounki...
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  • S. Air Force plane shooting down an enemy plane with the onomatopoeia "WHAAM!" was later appropriated for Roy Lichtenstein's painting of that name. Irv...
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  • creative scene. In 2019, Kuan also co-founded the New York-based art gallery Whaam! alongside her long-time partner Anatoly Kirichenko. In her personal life...
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  • Personalities Released 1982 Genre Psychedelic pop punk rock new wave Label Whaam! Records (original UK release) Dreamworld Records (1986 UK reissue) Fire...
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  • Goes Art! Studio album by The Times Released January 1982 Recorded June – July 1981 Genre Post-punk, indie Label Whaam! Records The Times chronology...
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  • Party" (later covered by Yeah Yeah Noh); A second single on Dan Treacy's Whaam! label was withdrawn. In 1984 Farmlife split up, and Andy "Jesus" Mosquera...
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  • for several other Lichtenstein paintings, Okay Hot-Shot, Okay!, Brattata, Whaam! and Tex! The graphite pencil sketch, Jet Pilot was also from that issue...
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  • University. ISBN 978-0-9755662-1-3. Rubin, Susan Goldman (October 1, 2008). Whaam! The Art and Life of Roy Lichtenstein (first ed.). Abrams Books for Young...
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  • Bratatat! (1963), and Okay Hot-Shot, Okay! (1963). Bratatat! along with Whaam! and Varoom! are among Lichtenstein's most recognizable onomatopoeic works...
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  • and Bratatat! (1963). Some sources list Okay Hot-Shot, Okay! along with Whaam! and Blam as Lichtenstein's best-known examples of military art. Okay Hot-Shot...
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    (December 1996), p. 4. Paul Gravett: The Principality of Lichtenstein: From 'WHAAM!' to 'WHAAT?', 17 March 2013. Accessed on 6 September 2019. Childs, Brian...
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