While in high school, Lichtenstein enrolled in summer classes of the Art Student's League of New York City, where his primary mentor was the painter Reginald Marsh.

In 1961, Roy Lichtenstein produced his first pop paintings.

Find an artists’ work that you admire and explore the ways that you can copy it, whilst bringing something new to your reproduction. Finally he would paint this image using broad areas of flat Magna paint, strong contours and areas filled with Benday dots. In September 1940, Roy entered Ohio State University, where he studied art and other subjects. Find out more about The contemporary artist Damien Hirst has frequently made use of systems and patterns in his artworks to distance the traces of his hand in their production. In the relief print, In some, he experimented with surface pattern, using his signature Benday dots, flat shapes and bold contours to create symphonic patterns of colour and light across large surfaces, as can be seen in many of his late nudes, including the collage Nudes were also used by Lichtenstein as a backdrop for creating more complex surface detail, as can be seen in two of his screen printed works, Working from a found image, create a series of small collages using a range of patterns, colours and textures, such as newspaper, coloured paper and magazine clippings. His primary influences were Biography of Fernand Léger, Forerunner of Pop Art There, Lichtenstein built a studio and spent most of the rest of the decade out of the public spotlight. In Lichtenstein was inducted into military service in 1943 and while in service, he travelled to London and Paris where he saw works by artists such as In the late 1950s Roy Lichtenstein made a series of drawings based on iconic Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck. Find out more about  Think of the ways you could create a drawing based on a nude model, either from life, or copied from another artist’s work, such as Matisse or Picasso. In 1940 he attended painting classes at the Art Students League in New York, and enrolled as an undergraduate student at Ohio State University (OSU) in the College of Education.Between 1969 and 1972 he went one step further, creating close to fifty paintings based on reproductions of mirrors he found in a brochure, such as As well as producing paintings, Lichtenstein also created a number of limited edition prints from the 1960s onward, exploring technical innovations in lithography, screenprinting and woodcutting.
2. Aesthetically, Lichtenstein admired the strong silhouettes and flattened designs of advertisements and comic books in the way the Cubists admired African art fifty years earlier. How do the reflections allow us to see them in a new light? Notices dans des dictionnaires ou encyclopédies généralistes« Plus mon travail est fidèle à l'original, plus il est critique et lourd de sens »Clare Bell. While the Benday dots do create areas of light and shadow, instead of simply following the surface of the female form they are suggestive of waves of light shimmering across the whole picture surface. The influence of Dutch De Stijl artists from the early 20th century such as Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg can be seen in these works, who similarly pared their paintings down to the basics of primary colours plus black and white. During his high school years Lichtenstein visited jazz clubs around East 52nd Street, Staples on 57th Street and the Apollo Theatre in Harlem and even formed his own small band with friends, playing the flute, clarinet and piano.

Biography of Milton Avery, American Modernist PainterBiography of Cy Twombly, Romantic Symbolist ArtistBiography of Frank Stella, Painter and Sculptor The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation - Chronology.Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.Étudiant de l'Art Students League of New YorkÉtudiant de l'université d'État de l'OhioPortail:Biographie/Articles liés/Culture et artscomment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licenceIl meurt à la suite d'une pneumonie en 1997 au En 1999, la Roy Lichtenstein Foundation ouvre ses portes dans le studio de l'artiste dans Professeur à l'université d'État de l'Ohio« Je parie que tu n'es pas capable de peindre aussi bien que ça, hein, papa ? They reinforced the printed nature of his source material and reminded viewers that they were once removed from the subject of the work, as he explained, ‘...the dots can have a purely decorative meaning, or they can mean an industrial way of extending the colour, or data information, or finally that the image is a fake’ (quoted in Bader 2009, p.36).Lichtenstein explored the subject of the nude extensively, and made his first major nude painting, Lichtenstein also applied strict compositional principles to his artworks throughout his career. Il décrit lui-même son style comme étant « aussi artificiel que possib…