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Litchenstein
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Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born in New York in 1923, and it was in high school that he started to draw and paint as a hobby. The artist received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in fine art from Ohio State University, following a brief period of military service. He also taught at Ohio State University until 1951, and then moved to Cleveland to work. In 1957, Lichtenstein started teaching at Oswego State College in New York, and in 1960,...
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Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born in New York in 1923, and it was in high school that he started to draw and paint as a hobby. The artist received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in fine art from Ohio State University, following a brief period of military service. He also taught at Ohio State University until 1951, and then moved to Cleveland to work. In 1957, Lichtenstein started teaching at Oswego State College in New York, and in 1960, moved to Rutgers University. Three years later he gave up teaching to paint full time.
Lichtenstein’s early works were influenced by Pablo Picasso, especially the works of his Blue and Rose periods. In the 1950s, Lichtenstein's paintings largely dealt with themes of the American West, albeit in a style similar to that of modern European painters. Next, he began hiding images of popular comic strip figures (such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Bugs Bunny) in his paintings.
By 1961 the artist had evolved the imagery of common place objects and figures for which he became best known. Lichtenstein also incorporated reproductions of works by Picasso, Piet Mondrian and Claude Monet in his own work. He also chose a technique of mass production to render these works, using a half-tone format with dots of colours and hard edged lines instead of painterly brushstrokes and application of paint.
In 1966, Lichtenstein’s work was included in the Venice Biennale, and in 1969, New York’s Guggenheim Museum hosted a large retrospective exhibition. In the 1980s and 1990s, Lichtenstein began to mix and match styles, often augmenting his cartoony images with ideas derived from Abstract Expressionism. Often, his work relied on optical tricks or illusions, drawing his viewers into a debate over the nature of ‘reality’. Nevertheless, these works were always characterised by the artist’s trademark sense of humour and the absurd.
Lichtenstein’s longevity and prolific output brought him appreciation as one of America’s greatest living artists. In 1994, a commission to design a painting to adorn the hull of the United State’s entry in the Americas Cup yacht race led to a series of maritime-themed works. In 1995, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art launched the travelling exhibition, ‘The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein’, which covered more than two decades of his work in this medium. 1996 marked yet a departure for the artist. In an exhibition at New York’s Leo Castelli gallery, he showcased a series of works titled ‘Landscapes in the Chinese Style’, inspired by the delicate style of traditional Chinese paintings.
Lichtenstein continued to paint and experiment with various themes and genres into his seventies, until his death on September 29, 1997.
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Born
October 27, 1923
Manhattan, New York
Died
September 29, 1997
Manhattan, New York
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