Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, in Manhattan. Known for his paintings inspired by comic strips, Lichtenstein’s work is associated with the Pop Art movement. His works borrow from the visual style of comics, while humorously parodying the genre. His signature technique was the exaggerated use of Ben-Day dots, a form of pointillism specific to comic book printing, in which overlapping dots of color create secondary colors. Inevitably influenced by the culture of American advertising, his style was, according to him, more a form of industrial painting than American painting.

In 1951, his first solo exhibition took place at the Carlebach Gallery in New York. In the 1960s, his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York alongside works by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist.

Lichtenstein earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio State University in 1949 and later obtained a teaching position at the same institution. He remained there for six years before returning to New York to further pursue his artistic practice.

The artist died on September 29, 1997, in Manhattan.