Roy Lichtenstein, le MOMA et Tony Abruzzo (Et Neil Gaiman)

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Les arts plastiques ont cette mauvaise tendance à s'approprier du comics, en pensant bien faire pour élever cette sous-culture au rang d'œuvre.

Sauf que nous sommes des millions à travers le monde à apprécier la BD, et nous savons qu'elle est un art à part entière.

Parmi ces millions il y a Neil Gaiman, qui a fait remarquer au prestigieux MOMA que certaines des œuvres de Roy Lichtenstein sont tirées de comics par Tony Abruzzo. Le scénariste britannique a ainsi poussé un coup de gueule sur les réseaux sociaux, et ça a eu un effet très positif.

Désormais le MOMA reconnait l'inspiration originelle, et cite Abruzzo. Une victoire pas si petite pour le genre comics.

Les messages de Gaiman sur FB ->

	Citation:
	I'm hugely disappointed in MoMA The Museum of Modern Art. Their online description of Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl doesn't actually credit Tony Abruzzo, the artist who drew the picture Lichtenstein traced for his art, only crediting the comic it was from -- and even then getting the comic's title wrong, as if they couldn't really be bothered. It gives the impression that this was "found art" and corporately produced, and not actually ever drawn by a person. (The disappointment comes from my pointing this out on Twitter last month, and seeing no response, which I didn't mind, but no attempt to fix their webpage, which I do. Come on MoMA, do better.)

	Citation:
	Thank you MoMA The Museum of Modern Art! It now reads: Many of Roy Lichtenstein’s early paintings appropriated imagery found in comic books. Drowning Girl, samples a page from issue #83 of Secret Hearts, a romance comic book illustrated by Tony Abruzzo and published by DC Comics in 1962. In Abruzzo’s original illustration, the drowning girl’s boyfriend appears in the background, clinging to a capsized boat. Meanwhile, the drowning girl in the foreground laments with closed eyes. Thank you for fixing this. Making sure that the original artists get credit for work may be a small thing, but it’s an important one.