Roy Lichtenstein

Born in New York in 1923. He started to be famous for his bold, Pop Art paintings of comic strip cartoons and everyday objects:

he was best known as a painter, he use to work in a variety of media: sculpture, murals, prints and ceramics.

Lichtenstein chose colors carefully, to imitate the four colors of printers’ inks. He also used Ben Day dots, a system invented to increase the range of colors available to newspaper printing.If we look for his work from a distance we can see how clear the color are , but they look like many tiny dots in the close-up.

Lichtenstein is famous for his use of cartoon strips from American comic books, which had a wide readership in the 1950s. He admired the skill of the comic book artist, who could create complex stories of love and war in cartoon form.

Lichtenstein was sometimes accused of copying comics exactly, but he stressed that he made changes to them  right down to the tiniest placement of individual dots. He was also criticized for using very basic painting techniques.