Lichtenstein

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= Roy Lichtenstien =

Birthname- Roy Fox Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923 in Mannhattan, New York

Roy Lichtenstein died September 29,1997 in Mannhattan, New York

Art Medium/materials- For materials and art medium he used lithographs, enamel on steel, magna on canvas and oil on canvas. He used primary colors on white backrounds with black outlines, sculptures, prints in his printing style.

Subject/genre-Roy Lichtenstein drew mass produced commercial illustrations, especially comic strips and advertisements. He drew the most common pictorial images in daily life and made them the subjects of art. He also drew Greek temples, and sunsets. His comic strip paintings included words used to describe sounds or a portion of dialogue.

Art movement/period of artist- Lichtenstein was part of the pop art movement.



An interesting fact about my artist- Roy Linchtenstein was one of first artist in the pop art movement. He liked to draw comic strips for his art. He painted modern paintings based on images from the thirties in 1966 to 1970. He eliminated brushstrokes from his painting surface. His paintings consist of primary colored dots, and white backgrounds with black outlines

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Works Cited:

Leveton, Deborah. "Lichtenstein, Roy." //World Book Student.// World Book, 2012 Web. 3 Mar. 2012.

Hendrickson, Janis. //Lichenstein//. Toky; Taschen, 2000.