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Roy Fox Lichtenstein (pronounced /ˈlɪktənˌstaɪn/; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody. Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. He described pop art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting". His paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City.
Whaam! and Drowning Girl are generally regarded as Lichtenstein's most famous works, with Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But... arguably third. Drowning Girl, Whaam! and Look Mickey are regarded as his most influential works. His most expensive piece is Masterpiece, which was sold for $165 million in January 2017.
Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York, into an upper-middle-class Jewish family. His father, Milton, was a real estate broker, his mother, Beatrice (Werner), a homemaker. He was raised on the Upper West Side and attended public school until the age of twelve. He then attended New York's Dwight School, graduating from there in 1940. Lichtenstein first became interested in art and design as a hobby, through school. He was an avid jazz fan, often attending concerts at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. He frequently drew portraits of the musicians playing their instruments. In his last year of high school, 1939, Lichtenstein enrolled in summer classes at the Art Students League of New York, where he worked under the tutelage of Reginald Marsh.
Lichtenstein then left New York to study at Ohio State University, which offered studio courses and a degree in fine arts. His studies were interrupted by a three-year stint in the Army during and after World War II between 1943 and 1946. After being in training programs for languages, engineering, and pilot training, all of which were cancelled, he served as an orderly, draftsman, and artist.
Lichtenstein returned home to visit his dying father and was discharged from the Army with eligibility for the G.I. Bill. He returned to studies in Ohio under the supervision of one of his teachers, Hoyt L. Sherman, who is widely regarded to have had a significant impact on his future work (Lichtenstein would later name a new studio he funded at OSU as the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center).
Lichtenstein entered the graduate program at Ohio State and was hired as an art instructor, a post he held on and off for the next ten years. In 1949 Lichtenstein received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio State University.
In 1951 Lichtenstein had his first solo exhibition at the Carlebach Gallery in New York. He moved to Cleveland in the same year, where he remained for six years, although he frequently traveled back to New York. During this time he undertook jobs as varied as a draftsman to a window decorator in between periods of painting. His work at this time fluctuated between Cubism and Expressionism. In 1954, his first son, David Hoyt Lichtenstein, now a songwriter, was born. His second son, Mitchell Lichtenstein, was born in 1956.
In 1957, he moved back to upstate New York and began teaching again. It was at this time that he adopted the Abstract Expressionism style, being a late convert to this style of painting. Lichtenstein began teaching in upstate New York at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1958. About this time, he began to incorporate hidden images of cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny into his abstract works.
In 1960, he started teaching at Rutgers University where he was heavily influenced by Allan Kaprow, who was also a teacher at the university. This environment helped reignite his interest in Proto-pop imagery. In 1961, Lichtenstein began his first pop paintings using cartoon images and techniques derived from the appearance of commercial printing. This phase would continue to 1965, and included the use of advertising imagery suggesting consumerism and homemaking. His first work to feature the large-scale use of hard-edged figures and Ben-Day dots was Look Mickey (1961, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.). This piece came from a challenge from one of his sons, who pointed to a Mickey Mouse comic book and said; "I bet you can't paint as good as that, eh, Dad?" In the same year he produced six other works with recognizable characters from gum wrappers and cartoons.
In 1961, Leo Castelli started displaying Lichtenstein's work at his gallery in New York. Lichtenstein had his first one-man show at the Castelli gallery in 1962; the entire collection was bought by influential collectors before the show even opened. A group of paintings produced between 1961–1962 focused on solitary household objects such as sneakers, hot dogs, and golf balls. In September 1963 he took a leave of absence from his teaching position at Douglass College at Rutgers.

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Whaam!

Artist's studio - The dance

Artist's studio - The dance (sketch)

Torpedo los

Mr. Bellamy

Takka Takka

Look Mickey

We rose up slowly

Roto Broil

In the car

Varoom

Girl with ball

M-Maybe

Brattata

Hopeless

Blam

Jet pilot

Untitled Roy Lichtenstein ^ Gian Franco Gorgoni (1988)

Wham

Drowning girl oversize -

Drowning girl

NUDE WITH BLUE HAIR

Drowning girl

Girl in Mirror

Cowboy On Horseback

Frightened

Bedroom at Arles

Sinking sun

Girl hair ribbon

Woman in bath

Ruins

Stretcher Frame with Cross Bars III

The kiss

Crying girl

Grrrrrrrrrrr

Lookmickey

Kitchen range

Still Life with Goldfish (and Painting of Golf Ball)

Spray

The Cowboy (Red)

Laughing cat

Live ammo (Ha! Ha! Ha!)

Modular Painting with Nine Panels

Magnifying glass

Nude with Yellow Pillow

Foot and Hand

Washington crossing delaware

Head - red and yellow

Glass and lemon in a mirror

Despair

The hero's return

Sunrise

Trigger Finger

Painting with Detail (Blue)

Arctic landscape

Figures with sunset

Engagement

Half Face with Collar

Bauhaus stairway

Art

The den

Forget it! Forget me!

Alka Seltzer

Interior with mirrored closet

Curtains

Woman in Landscape

Imperfect Painting 3

Arctic landscape

Jar and apple

Interior with water lilies

Female Figure

Red barn II

Thinking of him

Stepping out

Pop

Keds

Still Life with Pearls

Still Life with Crystal Bowl

Collage for Landscape with Scholar's Rock

Girl at piano

The grip

Nude at vanity

Indians Pursued by American Dragoons After Wimar

Mermaid

Hot dog

Collage for Interior with Ajax

Live ammo

Female figure

Goldfish bowl II

Popeye

Icansee

Abstract Still Life

Landscape

Ceramin sculpture

Art Critic

Baked Potato

Sunrise

Interior with cactus

Collage for reflections on hair

Knapp Brushstroke Sculpture

Still life with crystal bowl

Woman in a wheelchair

Untitled (1960)

Cape cod still life

Turkey

Brushstroke with Still Life VII

Face green nose

2 red and yellow apples

Blue Grapes

Interior with restful paintings

Reflections on the artist's studio

Mirror #4

Brushstrokes

The Cattle Rustler

Red Painting (Brushstroke)

Modern Sculpture with Apertures

Portrait

Coast Village

Intyelap97

Washing machine

Interior with mirrored wall

Wimpy (Tweet)

Cape Cod still life

Reflections Wonder Woman

Collage for Interior with Nude Leaving

Still life with dossier

Expressionist Head 2

Mirror # 7

Forest scene

Painting with Silver Wood Grain Frame

Sky and water

Interior with mirrored wall

Alka seltzer

Interior with Red Wall

Two Green Apples

Water Lilies

Two Nudes

Brushstroke with Still Life

Lemon and Apple

Large Interior with Three Reflections

Bananas and Grapefruit

Collage for Explosion center (for Ileana Sonnabend)

Woman III

Tutentintin

Woman with hat

Filmposter

Reflections on The Scream

Magglass

Gullscape

Bamboo frame

Reflections Spray II

Standing rib

Cathedral #6 State II

Mad scientist

Interior with cactus

Plus and Minus (Yellow)

Woman

Ruins

Interior with Yellow Chair

Mirror #4

Mirror

Still Life with Green Vase

Reflections Untitled (1988)

Wall explosion II

Expressionist Head 3

Face (Red)

Glass IV

Picasso head

New Seascape

Collage for nude with white flower

Standing Rib

Desk calendar

Reflections II

Still Life with goldfish

Girl with Tear III

Reflections Wimpy II

Interior with mobile

Donald Duck

As I opened fire, I knew why tex hadn't buzzed me... if he had...

Gullscape

Modular Painting with Four Panels 8

Landscape with Figures and Sun 2

Interior With Water Lilies

Telaviv mural

Collage for reflections on hair

Interior with mirrored closet

2 apples

The Atom

Silver Frame

Still Life with Table Lamp

Charles Eames Chair

Refrigerator

La Sortie

Sponge

Mirror # 2

Green st mural

Imperfect Painting

Collage for Pro Choice Button Design

Mirror in Six Panels

Landscape with figures and rainbow

Reclining Bather

Collage for Hologram Interior

Landscape With Red Roof

Composition

Reflections Art

Trompe L'oeil with Leger Head and Paintbrush

Mural with blue brushstroke

The enemy would have been warned...

Haystack #6 State III

Baked potato

That my ship was below them...

Collage for Brushstroke Still Life with Box

Mirror six panels #1

Sleeping Girl

Mountain Village

Landscape with Figures and Sun

Design for Dreamworks logo

Baked potato

Paintings

Head red shadow

Coup De Chapeau (Self Portrait)

Kiss

George Washington

Curtains

Man with folded arms

Non objective I

Emigrant train

Bull Head II

Apple and Grapefruit

Imperfect painting

Mural

Pink Flowers

Reflections on Conversation

Still Life with Plums

Peace Through Chemistry

Paintings with Roses

Collage for Mickasso

Bstraction with Picture Frame

Bull Head

Compositions II

The End of the Trail

Small explosion

Imperfect Painting

Collage for Brushstroke Still Life with Coffee Pot

Little big painting

Head black shadow

House III

Explosion I

Modern Tapestry Cartoon

Still Life with Red Pitcher

Washing machine

Head blu shadow

Reflections Handshake

Haystack #1

Brustrokes

Goldfish bowl

Manwithfoldedarms(cezanne)

Interior With Mobile

Baseball manager

Entablature

Portrait II

Studio the dance

Seascape

Interior with Painting of Trees

Bugs Bunny

Painting (Still Life With Envelope)

A Cherokee Brave

Sunrise Over Water

Forest Scene with Temple

As i opened

Artamer64

Ceramic sculpture 5

Imperfect Painting 2

Collage for House II

Bull Head III

Bull (1973)

Head

No - Nox

Brushstroke Head (untitled) (1986)

Collage for Flower with Bamboo

Mirror 1

Painting Silver Frame 2

Coup de Chapeau

Drawing for Mickasso

Temple of apollo

Interior with mobile

Double Architectural Motif

Mirror six panels #3

Mao

Interior with Account Books

Coup De Pinceau

Mirror #6

Sailboats

Mural with Blue Brushstroke

Collage for Titled

White drip

Brushstroke with Still Life VI

Yellow and withe drip

Collage for Woman with Mirror

Glass (1977)

Brushstroke Head - untitled (1986)

Large interior

Bull (2) (1973)

Figures in Landscape

Woman with Hat (untitled) (1986)

Brushstroke Still Life with Lamp

Bread in bag

Drawing for Seductive Girl

Modern head

Woman sunlight-moonlight

Interior with Shadow

Venetian Blinds

Desk calendar

Brushstrokes in flight

Collage for Nude

Landscape (1964)

Turkey bn

Glass wave

Portmcezanne

Modern Painting with Steps

Collage for Interior

Bedroom (unique state)

Bathroom

Interior with Mobile Painting

Bull

Nude on Phone with Bust

Couchdraw

Breadbag

Collage for Reclining Nude I, Aurora

Chapel of the Eucharist

Mirror Six Panels #2

Sock

Him

Hey you - (2402193)

Face (green nose)

Modular painting with four panels, #2

Preparedness

Little big painting

Figures with sunset

The red horseman

Sailboats through the trees

Sailboats

Pow Wow

Woman in a wheelchair

Modern painting with clef

Nonobjective II

Nude on beach

Perfect Painting #1

Modular painting with four panels, #6

Modern painting with wedge

Landscape with figures and rainbow

Coast village

Imperfect painting

Big painting No. 6

Bull III

Okay, Hot-Shot

Modular Painting with Four Panels #1

Bull VI

Sandwich and soda - (2804538)

Preparedness

Little aloha - (6100407)

Brushstrokes

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