Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Fox Liechtenstein (New York City, 1923 – New York City, 1997) was an American Pop Art painter and sculptor.

Roy Lichtenstein was the master of the stereotype, and the most sophisticated of the major Pop artists in terms of his analysis of visual convention and his ironic exploitation of past styles. The work for which he is now known was the product of a long apprenticeship... in 1969 he was given a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, which later toured America. [1]

In 1995, Liechtenstein was awarded with the National Medal of the Arts, Washington D. C. and the Kyoto Prize, Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan.

One of his best known works, is Drowning Girl (1963):

See also

• Painting Schools
• Painting Masterpieces
• Andy Warhol

External links

• The Roy Liechtenstein Foundation.
• Roy Lichtenstein.
• Roy Liechtenstein at The Museum of Modern Art