{"id":63004,"date":"2022-07-07T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/?p=63004"},"modified":"2022-07-07T08:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T08:22:12","slug":"the-history-of-roy-lichtenstein-and-his-art-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/blog\/the-history-of-roy-lichtenstein-and-his-art-style\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Roy Lichtenstein And His Art Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AG6M1uo2PVY?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe>Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop-artist. He was born on October 27, 1923 and died on September 29, 1997. His art style was known for the use of Benday dots and bold outlines to create a cartoonish effect. His early work was influenced by the surrealists and artists like Picasso, Matisse and Chagall.<\/p>\n<p>The artist is best known for his paintings based on advertising imagery from everyday life. He also produced sculpture, ceramics, and drawings. He was a major figure in the pop art movement of the 1960s.*<\/p>\n<p>Biography<\/p>\n<p>Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27th, 1923 in Manhattan, New York City to father Milton Ben (Benjamin) Lichtenstein, who sold insurance policies and whose original family name was Lichtenstein, and mother Dora (n\u00e9e Block), who had emigrated from Hungary at an early age. Roy&#8217;s first love was drawing. He enjoyed making caricatures of his teachers in school; however, he yearned to be an artist and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Cleveland between 1939-41 where he met Richard Lindner who encouraged him to pursue his dream of being an artist.<\/p>\n<p>The Second World War broke out while Roy was studying at Ohio State University and<\/p>\n<p>Roy Lichtenstein paintings are among the most popular pieces of art in the world, and his comic book inspired style is one of the most recognizable, but how much do we really know about his art?<\/p>\n<p>In this blog I hope to explore Roy Lichtenstein&#8217;s life and works further. I will be writing about his famous pieces as well as lesser known ones and will also be exploring his art style, through which he has influenced many other artists.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the post you will find a list of links to other interesting sites about Roy Lichtenstein and his works, which I hope you&#8217;ll find useful.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;ve been curious about Roy Lichtensteins&#8217; art, or if you&#8217;re already a fan of his work and would like to learn more then this post is for you!<\/p>\n<p>Roy Lichtenstein (born 1923) is a American pop artist. He is best known for his paintings based on comic strips and advertising. His work was heavily influenced by the popular art styles of the 1950s, which he transformed into easily recognizable images with his own visual language.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of his career, Lichtenstein began to produce sculptures using the same imagery\u2014in some cases as three-dimensional versions of his two-dimensional works.*<\/p>\n<p>Lichtenstein&#8217;s work became popular among young Americans because his themes addressed the way they were living their lives at that time.*<\/p>\n<p>Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City in 1923, and studied at the Ohio State University and the Acad\u00e9mie Julian in Paris. In 1951 he had his first solo show in New York City at Leo Castelli Gallery.*<\/p>\n<p>He then returned to Ohio where he worked as a professor at Ohio State University until he was drafted into army service in 1954. Following military service and until 1960, Lichtenstein lived in Cleveland, Ohio while keeping an apartment in New York City.*<\/p>\n<p>In 1961, Roy and other artists including Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist and Phillip Hefferton formed The Brush Club. The group would meet at Max&#8217;s Kansas City every Thursday night<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the artist&#8217;s style is so well-known that it is hard to believe he ever had a different style. Roy Lichtenstein was born in 1923 into a middle-class Jewish family in New York. He studied art at the Los Angeles Art Academy and at the Art Students League in New York, where he met some of the most significant people of his life: the painter Ben Shahn and, most importantly, the artist and art collector Leo Castelli.<\/p>\n<p>Till this day, his family is still involved in his artwork; they are on the board of directors of the collection foundation that owns all of his artwork (as well as many other important ones). The collection has been housed in museums across America, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>It might seem like a lot of money to spend on one man&#8217;s work, but it is interesting to know that there are more than 1,000 pieces of his work. In fact, there are over 3500 works held by the collection. According to an article published by Slate magazine, these works have a value of about $20 million dollars. In addition to this huge number of pieces, there are also multiple styles and time periods throughout Lichtenstein&#8217;s career. Although<\/p>\n<p>The cover art of the comic book &#8220;Wha Ha Ha&#8221; by Roy Lichtenstein is drawn in the style of his painting &#8220;Look Mickey&#8221; (1961). The comic book was published in 2005 by The S.L.A.M. publishing company, owned by comics artist and writer Daniel Clowes.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork on the cover is a detail of the original painting. Both works have significant differences, however, which are discussed below in this article on Roy Lichtenstein and his work.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist who developed a new way of making art with popular images from comic books and advertising. He made many large-scale paintings and sculptures based on such pictures.*<\/p>\n<p>Roy Lichtenstein was American pop artist. He was one of the leading figures in the new art movement which emerged in America during the 1950s and 1960s. The movement is also known as Pop Art, named after a term that came from a comment made by British critic Lawrence Alloway, who described the works of Andy Warhol as &#8220;pop art&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The subjects of pop art are often mundane objects, familiar images from popular culture like comic strips or advertisements. Pop art is also characterized by its use of bright colors and bold patterns and shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of his career, Lichtenstein&#8217;s paintings became more colorful and expressive. They were no longer just about imitating comic strips. Instead, they became more about expressing an artist&#8217;s personal emotions and feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Lichtenstein, who painted with a paintbrush, was especially famous for his use of Ben-Day dots. These dots are single colored shapes that are used to create shading within a painting. Lichtenstein took this style one step further than anyone had before him by using dots within dots within dots to create his paintings.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Lichtenstein was a famous and influential American artist. His best known works were paintings based on comic strips. These were large and loud, but not very popular.<\/p>\n<p>Then in 1963 he painted a set of smaller paintings in which everything was the same size and there was no background. All the elements of the painting were on the same plane, so that you saw all of them at once. These paintings got a lot of attention and are now considered masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p>Works based on comic strips:<\/p>\n<p>Works with flat planes:<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6jowA-pH-Y8?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gY-TS7x5tHk?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop-artist. He was born on October 27, 1923 and died on September 29, 1997. His art style was known for the use of Benday dots and bold outlines to create a cartoonish effect. His early work was influenced by the surrealists and artists like Picasso, Matisse and Chagall. 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