Birth Year : 1923
Death Year : 1997
Country : US
Roy Lichtenstein, one of the leading figures of the Pop Art movement,
was born in New York. He received his training in art at the Ohio State
University. After military service in Europe, he returned to Cleveland
and began to paint subjects drawn from American Popular culture, particularly
cowboys and Indians. These works were shown regularly in New York from
1951 to 1957. Then there followed a period of lyrical abstraction.
In 1960, he introduced his cartoonlike compositions drawn from comic
books and executed on a huge scale. He exploited the banal content with
wry humor, focusing on the frequently absurd heroics of the genre. In the
mid-1960's he turned to the history of art for inspiration, and investigated
the various styles of twentieth-century masters.
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Modern
Painting of Sun Rays
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Blam
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Thinking
of Him
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Kiss
V (serigraph)
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