Lichtenstein Roy

Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York in 1923
The American painter is considered the founder and main exponent of the Pop art movement that contrasts techniques and concepts of Abstract Expressionism with images taken from popular culture and everyday life
Roy Lichtenstein taught at the New York State University in Oswego from 1957 to 1960 and his first works date from 1951: at the beginning of his artistic career he painted American West themes, in 1957 he also dabbled in Abstract Expressionism and, later, in 1960, Roy Lichtenstein incorporated advertisements and comic strips into his works, thus creating innovative paintings that fused painting and commercial printing The artist increased the size of his canvases and began to manipulate to his liking the graphic and linguistic conventions of comic strips dealing with genres such as romance, war and science fiction: he enlarged a detail or an entire sequence, outlined areas of colour with thick black lines and used a technique that simulated benday screening, a dot pattern used by engravers
After the 1960s, the artist moved drastically away from his earlier style both in his use of brushstrokes and in the subject matter depicted: still lifes and landscapes began to appear in his works
Of utmost importance was his first solo exhibition in New York at Leo Castelli’s gallery in 1962, and the following year at the Sonnabend Gallery in Paris; followed by solo exhibitions at the Stadelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1967, those in 1968 at the Tate Gallery in London and at the Kunsthalle in Bremen, and the one in 1969 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York…

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