Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein is one of the founders of American Pop art. He was born in New York. He studied with artist Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League and went on to attend and make art at Ohio State University. 

 

Lichtenstein’s painting changed radically in the early 1960s. He began to use imagery found in advertising and comic books; sources that would have been considered outside of art’s usual subject matter and formal concerns. Over the course of decades, however, Lichtenstein’s innovations came to symbolize art’s collision with popular culture, a collision that continues to develop today. From comic exaggerations of advertising to images of war, cartoon icons to consumer goods, anything and everything printed and distributed in American culture was a potential subject for Lichtenstein’s painting.