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The signs in this section have been designed from the information provided by The Food Standards Agency and the HSE to help the employer make catering staff more aware of the food hygiene standards required by Law. Having the correct catering safety signage and food labelling system in place will help make chefs, cooks and catering staff more aware of potential hazards in the kitchen while reducing the risk of food contamination, cross-contamination, food waste, accidents and injuries. ... It was primarily used in color comic books between the 1950s and 1960s to produce the effects of shading and a secondary color without spending a lot of money.

Incorporating Pointillist principles, Pop artists employed Ben-Day dots as a way to imitate the visual style of printed images, advertisements, and comic books. The systematic placement of dots allowed them to achieve uniformity and create the illusion of colour and texture, similar to the way Pointillist artists created depth and luminosity through their meticulously placed dots. Pointillism in Pop Art: What Is It & What are Ben-Day Dots? Exploring the origins of the distinctive Pointillism art technique and its impact on the Pop Art movementSIGNS CAN PROVIDE BOTH TRAINED AND UNTRAINED STAFF WITH ESSENTIAL HYGIENE, FOOD PREPARATION AND FOOD STORAGE INFORMATION. The exhibition also shows the only film that Lichtenstein made. ‘Three Landscapes’. The film is divided into three panels and is a juxtaposition of movement and photography. ‘’Roy Lichtenstein’s triple screen film installation is a mesmerising hybrid of film, painting, billboard, comic strip and kinetic spectacle… Lichtenstein’s only venture into filmmaking premiered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1971 as part of the ground-breaking Art and Technology program.’’ The project placed international artists – including Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others – in residence with leading California-based industries, and exhibited the results of their collaborations.’’

The exhibition also includes some interesting screen prints. Modern Art 111, 1996 screen print on paper combines motifs from different artistic movements associated with modernism; all tendered in Lichtenstein’s trademark style. There is something similar to Picasso, the elements are deconstructed stylised and relate to cubism. There is a grid arrangement, diagonal lines and geometric influences that relate to Piet Mondrian, ‘’a parody of modern art, witty fusion, paying homage to artists he admired’’. References to Seurat and Monet are also very evident and the idea of cropping an image so that the image becomes refocused and reframed as well as the painted dots purposely not being painted flush with the canvas, highlight Lichtenstein’s appropriating motifs from Art history and shows how he is also aiming to break free of the pictorial frame.

But the most intriguing thing about the Ben-Day dots is that a lot of what most of us know about them is wrong. For example, the dots found on the comics are not actually Ben-Day dots – at least not if you want to be completely correct about it. Lichtenstein's interest in comic book imagery emerged in the early 1960s, a period when he began to explore the visual language of mass media and consumer culture. Inspired by the graphic and commercial nature of comic books, he sought to reproduce their distinctive dot patterns in his paintings, effectively blurring the line between high and low art. Ben-Day dots played a crucial role in the artistic style of renowned American artist Roy Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein, often referred to as the "father of Pop Art," incorporated the dots into his paintings to replicate the mechanical process of printing and to evoke the aesthetics of comic books and popular culture. His dot patterns were made up of one color that filled the surface. It is a pop-art way of engaging with an artist’s craft, and once Lichtenstein’s reproduction of old pulp comic panels hit the mainstream media, “dots” became a part of comics.