Roy Lichtenstein

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Roy Lichtenstein

• 1923 - 1997

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Roy Lichtenstein

• Roy Lichtenstein was a very important and famous
  American painter and sculptor whose 1950s
  abstract style developed into to Pop art in the
  early 1960s.

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Andy Warhol

• Along with fellow American artist Andy Warhol,
  Roy Lichtenstein was one of the central figures
  of the American pop art movement in the 1960s,
  which celebrated popular, commercial images.
• Unlike abstract expressionists, Lichtenstein and
  Warhol liked mimicking familiar images in popular
  culture.

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Warhol Marilyn Monroe
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Distinctive style

• Lichtenstein adopted a commercial art style,
  blowing up images from comic strips or showing
  everyday objects in a comic book style.
• He used bold and bright primary colours,
  prominent black outlines and patterns of dots to
  create funny and distinctive popular works.

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Lichtenstein Girl with ball 1961
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Lichtenstein Sandwich and soda 1964
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Ben Day Dots

• The patterns that Lichtenstein used are similar
  to Pointillism and mimic a process used for
  printing pictures in comics known as Benday dots
• The Benday dots printing process was invented by
  the illustrator and printer Benjamin Day 1810
  1889.

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Lichtenstein Plate showing use of Benday dots
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Lichtenstein Drowning Girl 1963
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LichtensteinWhaam! 1963
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Whaam! 1963

• Whaam! was painted in 1963. It is acrylic on
  canvas and measures 1.73 by 4.06 m (5 ft 7 in by
  13 ft 4 in). This painting is part of the
  collection at the Tate Gallery in London.

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Lichtenstein Kiss 1964
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LichtensteinAs I opened fire 1964
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LichtensteinRed barn 1969
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Changes in style

• In later life Lichtenstein became more interested
  in deconstruction and abstraction.
• Looking at the two pictures on the following
  slides notice how Lichtensteins style changed
  and developed in his later life.

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Lichtenstein Landscape with figures 1980
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Lichtenstein Interior with water lilies 1991
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Four contributions to 20th century art

• the breakdown of barriers between art and life,
  using everyday objects and subjects appropriate
  to consumer culture
• an exploration of art based on other art
• an interest in serial imagery
• participation in the untraditional medium of
  printmaking

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Roy Lichtenstein1923 - 1997