He treated Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as abstract colors and shapes, deliberately ignoring the characters that those forms were intended to represent.

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His most popular characters, the doggedly determined Mickey Mouse and the libidinous Donald Duck, represented the ordinary man's ability to triumph over any adversity, even a Great Depression.

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Sometimes called the first Pop painting, although not publicly exhibited until 1982, it shows Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse fishing on a dock.

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