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Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Roy Lichtenstein ( 27 October 1923 - 29 September 1997 ) was a prominent American pop artist, whose work borrowed heavily from popular advertising and comic book styles, which he himself described as being "as artificial as possible." Unsourced Art...


Biography

Name: Roy Lichtenstein
Birth Date: October 27, 1923
Death Date: September 29, 1997
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: artist, painter, sculptor, printmaker

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Biography of Roy Lichtenstein
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Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, startled the art world in 1962 by exhibiting paintings based on comic-book cartoons. Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City in 1923. He attended school there, and in 1939...
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Biography of Roy Lichtenstein
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Roy Lichtenstein was, as Robert Hughes noted in Time magazine, "a postmodernist before the term got going." The artist, as much identified with the American Pop art movement as was Andy Warhol, "realized that in art, though style may not be everything,...


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Lichtenstein, Roy (1923-1997) Summary
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Artist Roy Lichtenstein was one of the foremost members of the Pop Art movement which challenged traditional definitions of art in the 1960s. Lichtenstein's trademark style, developed by 1962, was painting in the form of a comic-strip frame. In...
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Roy Lichtenstein Information
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Roy Lichtenstein (27 October 1923–29 September 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, whose work was heavily influenced by popular advertising and comic book styles. He himself described Pop art as: "not 'American' painting but actually...


News and Journals
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Artforum
Roy Lichtenstein
01/01/2003: 576 words, approx. 2 pages
GAGOSIAN GALLERY Roy Lichtenstein was a bit inconsistent when he moved beyond the obvious quotation strategy that inspired him during the '60s. Some of the artist's attempts to overlay his dots, stripes, flat colors, and hard outlines onto other subjects gained real punch...
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The Economist (US)
Roy Lichtenstein. (painter)(Obituary)
10/04/1997: 933 words, approx. 3 pages
Lichtenstein began producing his comic-book paintings to please his children, but they have made him a pop art icon. Critics derided Lichtenstein's marrying of fine art with comic book images, but his achievement was in pointing out that the existence of art everywhere. ...
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The New York Observer
Feeling Green?
4/20/2007: 310 words, approx. 1 pages
Want to make Al Gore proud? Check out one of the many events in the city leading up to Earth Day on April 22. All this week, during “off-peak hours,” take in Giant Earth Images, a slideshow of environmentally themed art by Andy Warhol, Roy...
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The New York Observer
2005 Hamptons Special: After $45 M. Record-Breaker on Burnt Point, All Eyes on East End as Elites Carve Up Summer Turf
1/9/2005: 581 words, approx. 2 pages
In the rarefied air of East Side real estate, 2004's highlights included billionaire Ron Perelman suing a sidewalk café and hawkish co-op tenants evicting endangered birds from their longtime rooftop penthouse perches. Late in the game, however, Rupert Murdoch made the gossip columns with his...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
Lichtenstein and Warhol: Contributors to the Pop Art World
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Reviews the contributions made by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol towards the Pop Art movement in the 1960's. Keywords: cartoonism, comic strips, celebrities


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