Roy Lichtenstein
(October 27th 1923 – September 29th 1997)
Roy Lichtenstein is a huge favourite of mine. Because of my love of graphic novels and trashy comic books, I find his work inspiring. His defined black lines and emphasis on the enlarged dots within his work, I find remarkable.
Roy Lichtenstein is an American artist who was born in New York City on October 27th in 1923.
Lichtenstein was inspired by comic strips and advertisements, which moulded him into becoming one of the leading artist’s of the new Pop Art movement in the 1960’s.
His works are parodied from American popular culture and the art world itself.
Following artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, his work started having characteristics of Abstract Expressionism and popular American culture. Instead of abstract paintings that Pollock and others had done in the past, Lichtenstein drew inspiration directly from advertising and comic books. He mimicked his borrowed sources down to a stenciled process, which imitated mechanical prints used for commercial/industry art.
“When I have used cartoon images, I’ve used them ironically, to raise the question: Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?”
– Roy Lichtenstein
