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Image from: artknowledgenews.com Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein a pop artist who was born in New York of 1938 in October 27. He stayed there almost his whole lifetime. Someone who was reading a Mickey Mouse comic book once told him one day that he couldn’t draw a better picture than a picture that was in the book so he took the dare and he showed the guy the picture and was amazed and that’s why he started art. Roy was a pop artist which now a days that is considered a modern artist. Pop art is drawing something u hate but still doing it he really had no influences or someone to look up to but he still succeded. One of his most famous painting was The Kiss but personally my favorite is Sunrise. When he was a kid he was middle class he live a quiet and uneventful life. When he graduated high school he went to ohio for art and learned a lot more and became a great artist. But in his life a huge thing happened he had to give up art for a while because he got drafted in the brittin and Europe war. He went to college at Rutgers University for art. Most of his work that has been done is just like comics but not in the same panel. His panels were changed by color neatness and artwork. He was intelligent and witty he would commentate on his own work. Lichtenstein is right next to Andy Warhol for the best pop artist. Roy gives pop art a better reason and his art explains it more than anyone else. He produced about six charecters from a comic strip. After people saw his work they knew he had a future because his are was amazingly good. In 1980 he created sculptural martiques and they were great too. One of his specialties is Ben-day dots which is making your paintings out of dote for example the painting Sunrise has them and that painting is fantastic.



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Roy Lichtenstein was born on 0ctober 27 1923 and passed away September 1997. He was a great guy was funny and humorous but he always lived a quiet life but then one day his son told him I bet you cant make a better drawing than this picture here and the next few days he made an amazing painting that astonished him. After high school during his summer Roy went to Ohio State University and took art classes and he did good. His art career was interrupted by war he was drafted in 1943 and served in the Britin and Continental Europe war. Right when he returned from the war he went right back to Ohio sate and earned his Bachelor in Fine Art in June. He held his first one-man exhibition at the Ten-Thirty gallery in Clevland .In 1960 Roy was appointed Assistant Professor at Douglas College at Rutgers University of New Jersey, and put him in striking distance towards New York. He has a signature towards his art work called Ben-Day Dots and that’s what he is most famous for .In 1961 Roy produce six new painting of characters roy then started working on comic strip paintings then he took then to Leo Castelli Gallery and was almost imediatley accepted for a exhibition in its preference to Andy Warhol which who was starting to do similar work. In 1963 he moved from New Jersey to New York and have been getting absence from his job at Rutgers. Roy Lichtensteins development of art was marked by his prospensity for working in a successful series or thematic groups.