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Roy
Lichtenstein is a pop art painter whose works,
in a style derived from comic strips, portray
the trivialization of culture endemic in contemporary
American life. Using bright, strident colors
and techniques borrowed from the printing industry,
he ironically incorporates mass-produced emotions
and objects into highly sophisticated references
to art history.
In the 1950's, Lichtenstein painted in a style
derivative of Abstract Expressionism, with subjects
that ranged from reproductions of famous paintings
to commercial illustration. In 1960, he moved
to New Jersey to teach at Rutgers University
where he met fellow teachers Allan Kaprow and
George Segal. Lichtenstein, along with Andy
Warhol and Claes Oldenburg, was a pioneer figure
in the American Pop Art movement, which celebrated
popular and commercial imagery.
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