Roy Lichtenstein, whose work is currently on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, may be best known for his comic book-inspired paintings. His work has influenced several generations of artists and continues to be influential today.

Lichtenstein was born in New York City in 1923. His father was a real estate broker and his mother ran a candy shop. He grew up in Manhattan, attended public schools and graduated from high school in 1940.

The artist attended Ohio State University for two years before he was drafted into the army. Lichtenstein spent most of his time stationed in France during World War II. After returning home to America, he completed his undergraduate degree at Ohio State in 1949 and then enrolled at the Yale University School of Art in 1950.

Roy Lichtenstein’s first art show was held at the Charles Egan Gallery in New York City in 1951. The artist also began to teach art classes at the Parsons School of Design beginning in 1952. He was awarded a full scholarship to attend Yale University’s summer session in Paris during the summer of 1956 and received his master’s degree from Yale University School of Art later that same year.

During this time period, Roy Lichtenstein married Isabel Wilson and they

Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings can be found in the collections of more than 100 museums worldwide, including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and The Tate Gallery, London.

The artist has also had solo exhibitions at the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany. In 2011 his works were exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. They will be included in a major retrospective at Tate Modern in London in 2012.

Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27th, 1923, into a prominent family in Manhattan. His father Milton was a successful businessman and president of the American Wholesale Lace Company. His mother Dorothy was active on many charitable boards, including those of Mount Sinai Hospital and the New York Tuberculosis Association. Lichtenstein’s uncle Phillip ran Lichtenstein Bros., one of the largest fashion businesses on Fifth Avenue. Roy attended public school at P.S. 87 and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1939. He enrolled at Ohio State University where he studied

Roy Lichtenstein (1923 – 1997) was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s, using the industrial techniques of the comic strip, he became famous for his paintings based on photographs which were parodies of mass media images. His work was specific to certain moments in art history and popular culture—in fact, it could be argued that he created those moments himself and continually refined them.

Titled “Brushstroke”, one of Lichtenstein’s first works with his signature style of “panels” made up of brushstrokes imitating sources ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Picasso, who Lichtenstein called “the master of us all”. It was originally displayed at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1962 as part of a group exhibition that included Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.

Description:Roy Lichtenstein’s Brushstroke (1962) is an oil-on-canvas painting which incorporates elements from multiple sources. It is one of several works by Lichtenstein that reference Édouard Manet’s 1878 A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. The elements are not exactly copied and nor are they transformed: they are recontextualized within a different scene that contains all

Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923 in New York. In his early years he studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Ohio State University. He was drafted into World War II in 1942 and was stationed in Virginia where he served as a camouflage painter for the Army Air Corps. He used his time to study art.

His first paintings were expressionist works that captured the life of the soldiers that he served with. After returning from the war, Lichtenstein became a successful commercial artist. He had his first exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery in New York in 1951.

Roy Lichtenstein’s early paintings were realist depictions of figures from advertisements and cartoons, but he quickly found himself moving away from fine art to comic strips and pop culture images. His signature comic style came up when he tried to come up with a new way to paint a mirror image of an ad that had been painted by an artist named James Harvey.

The style stuck and soon Roy Lichtenstein was painting enlarged comic strip images using bold colors, thick lines, and Ben-Day dots to create the outlines of figures and shapes within the painting. The Ben-Day dots, which are color dots printed on glossy paper were used by many illustrators before becoming

Roy Lichtenstein is an American artist and leading pop art icon. He was a leading figure of the “Pop Art Movement”. His work has influenced many contemporary artists. He is best known for his paintings of speech bubbles, comic images and Benday dots.

Tate Modern, London and Brooklyn Museum are among the public collections holding works by Roy Lichtenstein.

Lichtenstein’s work is probably best known for its repetition of certain images and techniques. He used a Ben-Day dot pattern and Benday dots are small, uniform, circular markings that are used in printing and drawing to simulate shading. The patterns are named after American printer Benjamin Henry Day, who invented the dot pattern in 1847.

The Benday dots were often ‘overshadowed’ by other, more complex patterns and textures. Lichtenstein would use Ben-Day dots in his paintings along with incongruous ‘ Benday Dots’ (benday dots that were not uniform or were not the same size).

Lichtenstein would use this technique to give the appearance of a screen printed image that had been poorly reproduced. This style was used in his first notable work Whaam! which was based on a comic-book panel created by Russ Heath for DC Comics.

Born in New York City, Lichtenstein first rose to prominence during the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. His works are generally comic and satirical in nature, often featuring a heavy use of irony. He referred to his own work as “parasitical”, and deliberately made copies of other artists’ works.

In 1963 he produced Look Mickey, a parody of Andy Warhol’s work, although his own style was not yet developed. From 1964 to 1967, he painted the majority of his best-known works, such as Drowning Girl and Whaam!.

His paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. In October 1968, one of his works sold for $165. By 1970, his works were selling for more than $100,000. Prices declined through the 1970s and 1980s, until his paintings began selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars in the early 2000s.