WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- The Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents the exhibit Modern Fun! Prints from the '70s and '80s. While many artists of the 1970s and '80s found themselves reacting to complex, theory-driven movements such as minimalism and conceptual art, the printmakers on view here let a distinct sense of play enliven their works. The prints of Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Nicholas Krushenick, and Claes Oldenburg vary from innocently child-like to quirky and absurd, but all share a winking joke with the viewer. The artists accomplish this in a variety of ways. For Lichtenstein, it is his deliberate appropriation of comic-book style, complete with hard black outlines and benday dots, that transports the viewer back to a more youthful time. Dine uses the clichéd motif of the heart to pay tribute to his friend, the poet Anne Waldman, and transforms it into something both touching and fun. Color—neon or candy-hued—is the vehicle that Krushenick employs to give his spiky, fantastic shapes a cartoon -like quality. Oldenburg is the most overt jokester of the group, placing familiar objects into surprising settings (a gigantic spoon in an imaginary landscape!), and letting the viewer in on the laugh.