In early 1970, Andy Warhol established the record auction price for a painting by a living American artist with a $60,000 (US$470,746 in 2023 dollars[1]) sale of Big Campbell's Soup Can with Torn Label (Vegetable Beef) (1962), which is part of the Campbell's Soup Cans series, in a sale at Parke-Bernet, the preeminent American auction house of the day (later acquired by Sotheby's).

[3] The source for the entire Brushstrokes series was Charlton Comics' Strange Suspense Stories 72 (October 1964) by Dick Giordano.

[6] This painting has a Ben-Day dots background with four layered vigorous brushstrokes atop them in white, yellow, green, and red.

While each Abstract Expressionist brushstroke is an instantaneous effort, the satire includes the fact that Lichtenstein took a great deal of time to achieve the complicated reproduction.

With disarming paradox, the impulsive, athletic smears and spatterings of the 1950s are here impersonally hardened and industrialized by being seen through Lichtenstein's lens of commercial imagery.

6 and Yellow and Green Brushstrokes go one step further in terms of canvas size and dynamic activity that was presented earlier in Little Big Painting.

[17] One critic considers that Lichtenstein has converted the wide dripping brush strokes into a tidy work representing mass production.