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About Roy Lichtenstein
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Roy the artist entered the graduate program at Ohio State and was hired as an art instructor, a post he held on and off for the next ten years. During the 1960s,
pop art Roy Lichtenstein were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and, along with
Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, and others. He became a leading figure in the new art movement.
Roy Lichtenstein and his wife were divorced in 1965. He married his second wife in 1968. From 1970 until his death, The artist split his time between Manhattan. Artwork by Roy Lichtenstein defined the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody. Favoring the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter, the artist produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. Lichtenstein painting was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. Roy Lichtenstein described Pop Art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting". In 1961, the first Roy Lichtenstein pop art used cartoon images and techniques derived from the appearance of commercial printing. This phase would continue to 1965. A group of Lichtenstein art produced between 1961-1962 focussed on solitary household objects such as sneakers, hot dogs, and golf balls. When Lichtenstein work was first released, many art critics of the time challenged its originality. Lichtenstein painting was harshly criticized as vulgar and empty. The title of a Life magazine article in 1964 asked, “Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?” Analysis of Roy Lichtenstein Paintings There were many included in what is known as the POP art movement, so mentioning Roy Lichtenstein is almost necessary. Paintings of his like ‘Coast Village’ was built in 1987 and came out of nowhere in the art scene, showing unique innovation and style for that era. It used more colors than many could count, but did so in a tasteful enough way that it made sense. Those now infamous jagged lines in the painting eventually became a trademark long before this for Roy Lichtenstein, and made it easy to notice his style even for an untrained eye. His Mirror series was very popular throughout time, and features 4 main paintings. Most popular in the series is 1970’s ‘Mirror Six panels #1’ as it utilizes the least amount of colors but still has the most personality. The 6 panels claim a life of their own in the Roy Lichtenstein painting with the liveliest being the 6th panel, which coincidentally has the most color. Also made in 1970 was ‘Mirror #4’, which takes on a completely different look of the overall polished version. The circular form does away with the panels and instead uses a mix of misdirection with its colors to draw in the viewer of the Roy Lichtenstein painting, and does so quite easily. ‘Mirror six panels #3’ was made in 1971, and although it captures the greatness of #1, the meaning changing somewhat with the inclusion of blue. It’s still an innovative painting, with shades of colors that round out just about evenly. The standout from the Mirror series is ‘Mirror’, another 1972 Roy Lichtenstein painting that was made similarly to how he did ‘Mirror six panels #1’ & ‘Mirror six panels #3’. This time around instead of just adding blue to the circular mirror, he used a combination of light blue, dark blue and green. It is the most color out of the series, and the easiest to introduce to those new to art. Roy Lichtenstein knew what he was doing with this series, and ‘Mirror’ is truly a standout in it, even if it is different than the rest. |
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| The most famous image of art Lichtenstein is arguably Whaam! (1963, Tate Modern, London), one of the earliest known examples of Roy Lichtenstein popart, adapted a comic-book panel from a 1962 issue of DC Comics' All-American Men of War. The painting depicts a fighter aircraft firing a rocket into an enemy plane, with a red-and-yellow explosion. The cartoon style is heightened by the use of the onomatopoeic lettering "Whaam!" and the boxed caption "I pressed the fire control... and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky..." This diptych is large in scale, measuring 1.7 x 4.0 m (5 ft 7 in x 13 ft 4 in). |
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Whaam is widely regarded as one of the finest and most notable Lichtenstein
paintings. It follows the comic strip-based themes of some of previous Roy
Lichtenstein art and is part of a body of war-themed work created between 1962 and 1964. It is one of
the two notable large war-themed Lichtenstein paintings.
Most of the best-known Roy Lichtenstein artworks are relatively close, but not exact, copies of comic book panels, a subject he largely abandoned in 1965. (He would occasionally incorporate comics into his work in different ways in later decades.) In 1966, Lichtenstein the artist moved on from his much-celebrated imagery of the early 1960s, and began the Modern Lichtenstein pop art series, including over 60 paintings and accompanying drawings. Using his characteristic Ben Day dots and geometric shapes and lines, he rendered incongruous, challenging images out of familiar architectural structures, patterns borrowed from Art Déco and other subtly evocative, often sequential, motifs. In the early 1960s, Roy Lichtenstein reproduced masterpieces by Cézanne, Mondrian and Picasso before embarking on the Brushstroke series in 1965. Lichtenstein continued to revisit this theme later in his career with works such as Bedroom at Arles that derived from Vincent van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles. In the 1970s and 1980s, his style began to loosen and he expanded on what he had done before. Roy Lichtenstein began a series of Mirrors paintings in 1969. By 1970, while continuing on the Mirrors series, the painter started work on the subject of entablatures. The Entablatures consisted of a first series of art by Roy Lichtenstein from 1971–72, followed by a second series in 1974-76, and the publication of a series of relief prints in 1976. He produced a series of "Artists Studios" which incorporated elements of the previous Roy Lichtenstein girl. In the late 1970s, this style was replaced with more surreal works such as Pow Wow (1979, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen). A major series of Surrealist-Pop paintings from 1979–81 is based on Native American themes. Roy Lichtenstein's Still Life paintings, sculptures and drawings, which span from 1972 through the early 1980s, cover a variety of motifs and themes, including the most traditional such as fruit, flowers, and vases. In the Reflection series of art Roy Lichtenstein, produced between 1988 and 1990, the painter reused his own motifs from previous works. Interiors (1991–1992) is a series of Lichtenstein works depicting banal domestic environments inspired by furniture ads the artist found in telephone books or on billboards. |
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POP ArtThe origin of Pop Art can be traced back to 1917, Marcel Duchamp asserted that any object could be art if only he intended it as such. But till 1940s after the war II, the term “Pop Art” emerged in UK that suffered great economic hardship. Only several artists independently adopted Pop art as an experimental form, others would later become synonymous with the visual art movement. Andy Warhol become famous as the "Pope of Pop" by using the new pop art style, so was Roy Lichtenstein. The popular subjects in Lichtenstein pop could be part of his palette. Cartoons and advertisements, hand-painted with paint drips are the main images in early Roy Lichtenstein artwork. The entire series of pop Roy Lichtenstein was popular so that his reputation grew to the point, the artist was thought both the famous pop art artist and the high-priced contemporary artist in USA. |
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