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Roy
Lichtenstei
Roy Lichtenstein
Painter
and
Sculptor
Artist
• Born 1923 in New York
• Died in 1997
1950’s he was known as an
Abstract Expressionist
• An American Painting Movement of the 1940’s
and 1950’s
• Usually no effort to show subject matter
• Used to covey emotions
1960’s he became a Pop Artist
• Highly commercial art
• Lichtenstein used a cartoon/comic strip style
• Used the primary colors and dots
– Benday dots
• Printmaking process using screens of various dot
patterns to mechanically produce shading effects.
•Style originated in England in the 1950’s
•Style in the US in the 1960’s
•Artists focused on familiar images of popular
culture
•Billboards
•Comic strips
•Magazine advertisements
•Supermarket products
BLAM by Russ Heath
from the comic book: All
American Men of War #89
BLAM, Roy
Lichtenstein, 1962.
Oil on canvas, Size:
68 x 80 inches
More about his style…
• created his work by hand
• Lichtenstein wanted his
paintings to look like a
machine made them
– Used stencils to produce the
dots that make his artwork
look like a printed picture
BMW Art Car 1977