I decided to start with Roy Lichtenstein as one of the clues to the Barrio's work. "Hopeless" is one of the many of Lichtenstein work, a pop-artist, that the comic-book format is used. That's one of Barrios dialog. He did these two works as comic-books.
I want you to notice that Lichtenstein also have his dialog with art. You can see at his "Monalisa"* and "Bauhaus Stairway". Monalisa is one of the most famous masterpieces and Bauhaus a German school that operated from 1919 to 1933 and influenced architecture, designs and art.
*This is not a real Roy Lichtenstein, look at "signature" at the bottom-left It's a the way he would have done it by Meowza Katz who also did versions of Mona Lisa at the series "If other artists drew the Mona Lisa" made with Aviary the free online editor.
