Roy Lichtenstein

(1923-2005)

Was a leading American Pop artist. He began by painting cowboy and Indian subjects; he was influenced by Abstract Impression­ism in 1957, and by 1961 achieved a breakthrough with his enlarged dot images. His usually large pictures are based on the magnification of details from advertisements of everyday objects - a foot on a pedal-bin, a hand holding a sponge, a cooker with food in the open oven, and strip-cartoons. His technique imitates the coarse screen process of cheap newspaper printing, and his stylized forms translate his commonplace sources into simple but powerful patterns, expressed in strong primary colors, or in black and white.

Roy Lichtenstein’s famous paintings include:

• Stepping Out
• Masterpiece
• Girl with a Ball
• Hopeless
• Woman with Flowered Hat
• Purist Painting with Bottles
• Two Figures with Teepee
• Woman in a Bath
• Blam
• Portrait of a Woman