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Blam
Roy Lichtenstein
Art in the Classroom
Ms Fritch’s class December 2008
Masterpiece 1962
Ohhh….Alright 1964
• Born Oct 27,1923
• Died at age 73 (in 1997)
• Born in Manhattan, NYC, NY
• Studied art in Ohio
• American pop artist – influence by advertising and comic book style
• 1964, Life magazine published an article about him asking, ''Is he the worst artist in America?''
Roy Lichtenstein
Pop Art• Major art movement of 20th century
• Theme: popular culture– Advertising– Comic books– Used images of popular culture
• Pop art used media usually reserved for commercial Art
• Message is a parody of the superficiality and materialism of modern popular culture
• Attacking the traditional idea of the "Art Object" as a unique object created by a unique process
Look Mickey, 1961
Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein, Gift of the Artist, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Look Mickey: challenge from one of his sons: “I bet you cant paint as good as that, eh Dad?”
• One of the earliest known examples of pop art, • Whaam!' adapted a comic-book panel from a 1962 issue
of DC Comics' All-American Men of War. • The painting depicts a fighter aircraft firing a rocket into an
enemy plane, with a red-and-yellow explosion.
Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein, 1953. Roy Lichtenstein used the splash page of a romance story in DC Comics' Secret Hearts #83 (November 1962), lettered by Ira Schnapp, as the basis for the image
Most of his best-known artworks are relatively close, but not exact, copies of comic-book panels
The panels were changed in scale, color, treatment, and in their implications
• thick outlines• bold colors • Benday Dots
•dots of equal size and distribution in a specific area
Lichtenstein
Sunrise
Paint a large-scale cartoon image like Roy Lichtenstein!
Art in the Classroom: Roy Lichtenstein Activity
• Choose an image to work with• How will you crop it to fill the page? ZOOM in on part of the image and fill page
• Draw using pencil• Simple, big shapes, not a lot of detail• Paint: BRIGHT clear colorsuse big brushes for coverage, spread the paint to help it dry
• Use black sharpie to outline lines• CLEAN UP
Select an imageZOOM in…..
Select an image, ZOOM in
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