-Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop art painter, graphic artist, and sculptor, and he was best known for his comic-strip art. He worked starting from the late 1930's to 1997.Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City in 1923. In 1939- 1940 he studied under Reginald Marsh at the Art Students' League, New York, and 1940-1943 at Ohio State University, Columbus, where he completed his studies with an M.A.(Master of Fine Arts). Between those two periods of study he did his military service in Europe. Between 1949 and 1951 he taught at Ohio University. In 1951 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery, New York. Until 1957 he worked as a commercial artist and designer and ...view middle of the document...
In 1979 he received his first public commission for a sculpture. He made the Mermaid for the Theater of the Performing Arts, Miami beach, Florida. he painted the series American Indians. In 1981 the St. Louis Art Museum organized a retrospective of his work which toured the USA, Europe and Japan. In 1982 he rented a loft in New York in addition to his studio in Southampton. In 1985 he produced a mural for the Equitable Center, New York. In 1987 he had a retrospective of his drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, new York, and at the Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, in 1988. In September of 1997 Roy Lichtenstein died of pneumonia.Roy Lichtenstein's art work was fascinating. When he first began to draw he drew comic-strips. The comic-strip paintings such as The Melody Haunts my Reverie, and Good Morning, Darling, are blowups of the original cartoon characters, reproduced by hand, with the same technique of benday dots and bright primary colors used in printing. His later works include reproductions of popular-romance characters, stylized landscapes, picture- postcards of classical temples and showed the influence of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. His sculptures also re-create comic-strip effects. He had produced ceramic works as well.Roy Lichtenstein was and still is famous for many paintings, drawings and sculptures. Some of the paintings he is famous for are Good Morning, Darling(1964), The Melody Haunts My reverie(1965), I Know...Brad(1963), The Statue of Liberty(1963), and the on...
