Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein a famous world-wide artist. He was famous for his work and cartoon art. He first started to draw things like doodles and then he expressed his feelings in his art work but not in cartoons yet. Then he became famous in the U.S so then a friend held his work in his gallery in New York. But then Roy started to noticed that he was famous for his work all around the world. Roy was born October 27^th, 1923 and died September 29^th 1997. He was born in a upper-middle-class family in New York City. Roy attended public school till he was at the age of 12 because then he enrolled at the Franklin School for Boys in Manhattan. For his secondary education but the school didn’t have art class’s so he became interested in it as a hobby outside of school.      

 Schools that Roy did was during 1939 in his final year at the academy he enrolled in summer classes at the Art Students League of New York under the tutelage of Reginald Marsh. Graduating in 1940 left New York and went to Ohio State University which had degree’s in fine art. Then in September 1963 he took a leave of absence from his teaching position at Douglass College at Rutgers. Then  he moved back to New York and resigned from Rutgers University in 1964 to concentrate on his paintings. Next he began teaching in Upstate New York at Oswego in 1958. The training was in Ohio State University. In 1960 he started teaching at Rutgers university where he was influenced by Allan Kaprow. Ohio State hired Roy as an art instructor for 10 years. He was interrupted in  World War 2 began 1943 and 1946 returned to his studies in Ohio after the war.          

Roy when he started to paint his materials like he used oil and magna paint in his best known works. Features thick outlines, bold colors and Benday Dots to represents certain color as if created by Photographic reproduction. The panels were changed in scale, color, treatment, and in their implications, there’s no exact copy.  In addition to paintings, he also made sculptures in metal and plastic including some notable public sculptures.      

Roy’s Art Work was outstanding work people loved his work. Some people had got inspired by him cause of his work such as Drowning Girl at Museum of Modern Art at New York. One of the earliest known examples of Pop art, adapts a comic book panel from a 1962 issue of DC Comics All-American Men of War. During the 1970s and 1980s his work began to looses and expand on what he had done before. His painting Torpedo…Los! Sold at Christie’s for 5.5 million in 1989. Also a teacher at the University his environment helped to reignite his interest in Proto-Pop imagery. 1961 was Roy’s first pop painting using cartoon images and techniques derived from the appearance of commercial printing. Roy did six works of art that recognizable characters from gum wrappers in cartoons in a year. His most famous image is arguably Whaam! (1963, Tata Modern, London) one of the earliest known examples of pop art. The painting depicts a fighter aircraft firing a rocket onto an enemy plane. With a red-yellow explosion. The cartoon style is heightened by the use of the onomatopoetic lettering “WHAAM!”      

Roy began to find fame not just in America but worldwide. He decided to move back to New York to be at the center of the art scene. And resigned from Rutgers University in 1964 to concentrate on his painting. Roy would never take himself too serious however” I think my work is different from comic strips-but I wouldn’t call it transformation: I don’t think that whatever is meant by it is important to art. It frustrated that he was assigned design rather than painting courses. Rot had his first one man show at the gallery in 1962 . The entire collection was bought by influential collectors of the time before the show even opened. Roy did six works of art that recognizable characters from gum wrappers in cartoons in a year. In 1961 Leo Castelli started to displaying Roy’s work at his gallery in New York.  Roy is Nationally American.              

 Work Cited Page Lichtenstein, Roy. “Research on Roy Lichtenstein.” Work Cited. Roy . 31 Jan 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein>.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein

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