American Modern Artist Spotlight ☞Roy Lichtenstein☜ Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way. -Roy Lichtenstein During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art through parody. Favoring the comic strip as his main inspiration, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He described pop art as not American painting but actually industrial painting. His paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. Article here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein Roy Lichtenstein was the master of the stereotype, and the most sophisticated of the major Pop artists in terms of his analysis of visual convention and his ironic exploitation of past styles. The work for which he is now known was the product of a long apprenticeship. He was born in New York City in October 1923. His parents were middle-class and he described himself as having had a quiet and uneventful childhood. Though art was not taught as part of the curriculum at his high school, in his junior year he started to draw and paint as a hobby. His first subjects were jazz musicians (the product of a youthful enthusiasm for their music), and his work was affected by Picassos Blue and Rose Period paintings, which he knew from reproductions. In his last year of high school, 1939, he enrolled for summer art classes at the Art Students League under Reginald Marsh. Article here: roylichtenstein.us
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