The US artist Roy Lichtenstein was one of the major artists of the Pop Art movement. Like Andy Warhol, he transferred icons and visual expression from popular culture to the world of art. Lichtenstein is especially famous for his striking paintings, based on the visual idiom of comic strips from the 1940s and 1950s. He transferred the processes of printing technology – its contours, stripes and dots – to the surface of the canvas. The result is an almost seditious contrast to the artistic expression that characterises American Abstract Expressionism, the predecessor of Pop Art. The large picture, Figures in Landscape clearly reflects Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic style and was painted following the artist’s visit to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk in the 1970s. It could not be further from a traditional landscape painting. A woman in profile, presumably the artist’s own wife, is juxtaposed with a column and a section with a knotted tie. Even though the picture features a horizontal line with a view of the Sound, a sailboat and two seagulls, the motif is actually more like a chaotic puzzle, which, on account of the aesthetics of printing technology and the monumental size of the picture, is best assimilated from a distance.