Roy Lichtenstein
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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- Born on October 27, 1923
- In the. 1960's he became a leading
- Figure for the pop art movement
- That was inspired by advertisements
- And comic strips
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- His bright vibrant work parodied
- American popular culture and
- The art world it's self
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- In his earlier years he was interested
- In both science and comics, in his teenage years
- He became interested in art and started taking
- Water color classes.
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- He was studying collage in Ohio
- but that got it erupted and he got sent to
- world war II in Europe
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- After serving in the war he went back to
- collage and got two masters degrees both
- in fine arts
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- In the 1940's he started putting
- his art in galleries and all the people
- loved it so he continued to doing comic
- strips
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- He said that the war he served in
- inspired him a lot and showed him how
- good life was and also a lot of his earlier
- paintings were inspired by the war
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- He was also known for his comics
- and his massive reproduction
- of all his work, everyone seemed
- to love his work
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- He stopped using comic book sources
- In the 1970s his focus turned to creating paintings
- that referred to the art of early 20th century masters like Picasso
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- Soon he was getting huge reconization
- People even had sculptured put at and in airports
- of him in the 1980's
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- He was married twice
- and had 4 children and in1997
- he died of heart complications
THE DROWNING GIRL
- One of the most recognized
- pieces from the pop art movement
WHAAM!
- One of his most important paintings
- to himself and brought him much fame
