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English

Carol Strickland and John Boswell say that by magnifying the comic book panels to an enormous size with dots, "Lichtenstein slapped the viewer in the face with their triviality."[49] H. H. Arnason noted that Whaam! presents "limited, flat colors and hard, precise drawing," which produce "a hard-edge subject painting that documents while it gently parodies the familiar hero images of modern America."[71] The flat and highly finished style of planned brushstrokes can be seen as pop art's reaction against the looseness of abstract expressionism.[72] Alastair Sooke says that the work can be interpreted as a symbolic self-portrait in which the pilot in the left panel represents Lichtenstein "vanquishing his competitors in a dramatic art-world dogfight" by firing a missile at the colorful "parody of abstract painting" in the right panel.[64]

Spanish

Carol Strickland y John Boswell establecen que al magnificar los paneles del cómic original y convertirlos en imágenes de gran formato con puntos Lichtenstein "ataca al observador al usar demasiada trivialidad".[49] H. H. Arnason indica que Whaam! presenta "colores planos, limitados y un trazo fuerte y preciso" lo que produce una obra de contornos fuertes y delineados que parodia las ya familiares imágenes de héroes norteamericanos.[70] El estilo plano y las pinceladas planificadas se pueden ver como reacción de la corriente de arte popular (pop art) a la laxitud del expresionismo abstracto, "desbancando a sus competidores en una dramática pelea aérea" al disparar un misil a la colorida y abstracta imagen del panel derecho.[63]