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Like a soldier trained to watch Bikini Atoll through Rembrandt’s eyes, Roy Lichtenstein, arguably art’s greatest humorist, takes us from the ridiculous to the sublime. As an artist who repeatedly swore that his works were purely abstract, devoid of message, Lichtenstein’s work may have been full of mantic allusions and meditations over our civilization’s fragile future.