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Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born in New York City, USA in 1923 to Jewish German immigrants. As a child he showed an early interest in art, science and music, and in 1936 he enrolled at Franklin School for Boys, New York. The school had no art teaching provision and the following year he attended watercolour classes at New York School of Fine and ...
Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27, 1923, and grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. In the 1960s, Lichtenstein became a leading figure of the new Pop Art movement. Inspired by advertisements and comic strips, Lichtenstein's bright, graphic works parodied American popular culture and the art world itself. He died in New York City on September 29, 1997.
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To many people, Roy Lichtenstein's paintings based on comic strips are synonymous with Pop Art. These depictions of characters in tense, dramatic situations are intended as ironic commentaries on modern man's plight, in which mass media — magazines, advertisements, and television — shapes everything, even our emotions. Lichtenstein also based paintings on well-known masterpieces of art, perhaps commenting, as did Andy Warhol in his Mona Lisa, on the conversion of art into commodity. Like ...
New York, 1923-1997. Roy Lichtenstein was one of the foremost practitioners of American Pop Art. He depicted themes relating to the consumer society, daily life and mass culture, which he borrowed from advertising, comics and popular magazines. Through these apparently simple compositions painted almost exclusively in primary colours, he ...
Oct 9, 2019 · In this episode of The Most Famous Artworks in the World, discover Roy Lichtenstein's serious comic-inspired canvas Whaam! The painting disrupted the art world in the mid-1960s, delivering an ...
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