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Biographical Information:
Roy Lichtenstein was born in 1923 in New York City. Starting in the 1950's, Lichtenstein took for his primary subject matter banal comic strips and advertisements and enlarged them in his paintings, using limited, flat colors, and hard, precise drawing. The colors were based on those used in commercial printing. His pictures document, while gently parodying, familiar images of modern America. With his art Lichtenstein defined the basic premises of pop art more precisely than any other American painter.
The Pop Art movement started as a reaction against the success and high seriousness of Abstract Expressionism. As Roy Lichtenstein said "We wanted to paint pictures so outrageous and ugly that no one would want to buy them."
He preferred comic strips which were showing violent actions and sentimental romance and incorporated the Benday dots used in photo-mechanical reproduction. His painting "Whamm!" (1963) belongs to a group of pictures made in the early 1960s. Because of its monumental scale of 14 feet in width and its dramatic subject matter, which was based on heroic images of the comics of World War II battles, "Whamm!" became a historic painting for the Pop generation.
Lichtenstein also made free adaptations of the works of modern painters like Picasso, Mondrian and Matisse. In "Artist's Studio: The Dance" (1974) he borrowed an image from Matisse's "Dance II" (1909-1910) as a background for his own studio still life.
In the early 1990's, Lichtenstein made a series of large paintings of domestic interiors, some of them based on ads in the Yellow pages. "Bedroom at Arles" (1992) is painted after Van Gogh's famous picture "The Bedroom" (1888) where Lichtenstein enlarged the scale of Van Gogh's canvas and transformed the rustic Dutch bedroom into a modern middle-class interior.
Throughout his career Lichtenstein worked also as a sculptor and printmaker. His sculptures are essentially a two-dimensional conception like a free-standing painting in space rather than a volumetric round structure.
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Artists Works:
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Lichtenstein, Roy
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