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Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was born into a middle-class family in New York City, New York. He lived from 1923 to 1997. After serving for military duty in Europe from 1943 to 1945, he pursued in art in Ohio State. He was known as an American Pop Artist. He was a 20th century artist that liked to do comic art. He wasn’t always popular until in his thirties. Roy Lichtenstein used comic dots in the back of all his paintings. Comic art might be a hard thing to draw but he still did it with great passion. He used stencils to create magnificent pop art. The style of art in the 20th century that was popular was pop art. Roy Lichtenstein based his paintings on comics. He changed from doing cartoon comics to comics of people. His own kids influenced Roy Lichtenstein because they would always ask his dad to draw pictures of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. His kids would say he can’t draw as good as the comics. That inspired him into the olymp of artists. Because of his kids, Roy Lichtenstein became one of the greatest pop artists ever. Roy Lichtenstein contributed great comic drawings into the world. He was greatly appreciated for his comic art. Roy Lichtenstein worked from his thirties all the way to his death. He got into comic art because the comics fascinated him. He was also inspired to do comic art because of his love of comics. Roy Lichtenstein became such a great comic artists because of regular comics in general. file:///Network/Servers/estudents.darien61.org/Volumes/homes/students/bojkoa/Desktop/lichtenstein_blam.jpg ** Artist statement **

I chose the artist Roy Lichinstein. I was inspired by a lot of his painting. He also was a comic artist. He used comic dots in most of his paintings. He did the painting BLAM early on in his career. I used color pencil for my painting. In the painting BLAM, he made the back of a plane explode with a person shooting out of it. When I saw the painting BLAM, I knew that it was the one I wanted to do. It had a lot of details, and looked very cool. I put in a lot of detail to my painting. I did a light color of colored pencil and went over it once it was done. I was trying to show the viewer that Roy Lichinstien was a great artist. He did a lot of different art, but mostly comic. I was showing that Roy Lichinstien’s BLAM painting was very good. It portrayed World War 1 and our fight in the air. I enjoyed working on this painting. It was cool to draw the explosion coming from the plane when it was hit with a rocket. It was a successful painting because it had lots of detail and color. In conclusion, the painting BLAM by Roy Lichinstien was very good. I enjoyed working on it, and it turned out great. My painting was almost the same to the original. It was on of the best artworks that I ever did.