I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

They “[Constitute] an unexpected but highly satisfying nostalgic return to a youthful episode in the very midst of one of the most radical changes of style in Wesselmann’s career. In Still Life #28 he included a television set that was turned on “interested in the competitive demands that a TV with moving images and giving off light and sound can make on painted portions” He concentrated on the juxtapositions of different elements and depictions which were at the time truly exciting for him: “Not just the differences between what they were but the aura each had with it. Wesselmann took his idea further and decided to make them in color as well.

Tom Wesselmann (February 23 1931 Cincinnati – December 17 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting collage and sculpture.