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//**Roy Lichtenstein **//

Roy Lichtenstein is known as one of the greatest artist in the Pop Art Movement next to Andy Warhol. He has created many brilliant paintings that are known all around the World. For example, Girl with Hair Ribbon, Masterpiece, Whaam! and much more. He was born on October 27, 1923 in New York City, New York. Growing up in an ordinary house he didn’t have much influence with art. When he was fourteen years old, he attended his first art class on weekends. He attended Fine Arts at Ohio State University, and later taught art classes as a teacher. In 1943 Roy was drafted to serve in Britain and Europe. When coming back to New York after war, he was became very focused on his art. He started off decorating shop windows, and doing commercial graphics. Pictures made later looked like comics that were machine printed. Then the Pop Art Era came around, which is a style of art, which explores the everyday imagery that is so much a part of contemporary, and consumer culture. Roy was known for never wanting to show his brush strokes, perfection was his key. One of the first pop art pictures made by Lichtenstein was, Look Mickey. People started to recognize him even more after his painting, The Kiss. Over his years of work, Roy met Jim Dine, George Segal, and many more, who were very famous artist at the time, and still are to this day. Roy Lichtenstein lived an accomplishing life, but died September 29, 1997 in Manhattan, New York from pneumonia. We will always remember the great paintings made by him.

//The Kiss // http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?startat=/getposter.asp&APNum=7403871&CID=C89A047B12AA494394342E21F31A1D18&PPID=1&Search=the%20kiss%2 0roy%20lichtenstein&f=t&FindID =0&P=1&PP=1&sortby=PD&c=c&page=1 //** Neon Mists  **// The title of my artwork is Neon Mists. I chose this title because I think it describes my painting, the bright colors throughout the artwork show in the title, and describe the orange that comes out of the can. In my painting, Neon Mist I used acrylic paint. I chose to use acrylic paint because I thought that the bright colors would help my painting stand out. Also the artist who did this painting before, Roy Lichtenstein was known for his great techniques with paint. So I wanted to incorporate his art styles.

My inspiration was from one of Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings, Spray. I thought this painting would be great to do, because it is different than any other painting I have seen before. The message I was trying to send in this picture was to express who you are by art. The hand, which is spraying a design, shows someone expressing who they are. By adding the bright colors I was trying to express a happy mood, by making it neon. I thought this was a really fun piece to paint, because of the comic look that it has to it. The technique I tried to use was keeping the same brush stroke, and direction throughout the whole picture. My artist, Roy Lichtenstein always had to be perfect. He never wanted his brush strokes to show. I think that my picture is a successful piece of artwork, because it captures what Roy portrays in his paintings. Also I changed the colors because I thought it made everything stand out more then it had before. Roy Lichtenstein is a great artist, and I am glad I chose him as my inspiration. He has created many wonderful painting. I was happy I got to use one of his artworks for myself, and recreate it.