Roy Lichtenstein American Pop Artist

Pop ArtPop Art An art movement and style that had its origins in England in the 1950s and made its way to the United States during the 1960s. Pop artists have focused attention upon familiar images of the popular culture such as billboards, comic strips, magazine advertisements, and supermarket products. Leading exponents are Richard Hamilton (British, 1922-), Andy Warhol (American, 1928?1930?-1987), Roy Lichtenstein (American, ), Claes Oldenburg (American, 1929-), Jasper Johns (American, 1930-), and Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-).art movementstyleartistsimagespopular culture advertisements

Pop Art Andy Warhol Wayne Thiebaud Robert Indiana Examples of other Pop Artists work… Claes Oldenburg

Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist At the start of his artistic career, Lichtenstein painted themes from the American West in a variety of modern art styles; he dabbled in 1957 even in Abstract Expressionism, a style he later reacted against. His interest in the comic-strip cartoon as an art theme probably began with a painting of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck he made in 1960 for his children. Although he was initially dissatisfied with his technique and uncomfortable with direct appropriation, he took great pleasure in presenting well-known comic-strip figures in a fine art format. He increased the size of his canvases and began to manipulate to his own ends the graphic and linguistic conventions of comic strips dealing with such genres as romance, war, and science fiction. In the style of comic strips, he used words to express sound effects. He developed a detached, mass- produced effect by outlining areas of primary colour with thick black lines and by using a technique that simulated benday screening (a dot pattern used by engravers).modern artcomic-strip cartoonMickey Mouse Donald Duckcomic stripsscience fictionsound effectsprimary colour

Benday Dots

The Ben-Day Dots printing process, named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Day, is similar to Pointillism. Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely-spaced, widely-spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots, for example, are widely-spaced to create pink. 1950s and 1960s pulp comic books used Ben-Day dots in the four process colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) to inexpensively create shading and secondary colors such as green, purple, orange and flesh tones.Benjamin Day Pointillism

Sculpture

What color scheme does Lichtenstein most often use in his work? What would you say is Lichtenstein’s style of painting? What do you see when you look at his work? How do Lichtenstein’s sculptures resemble his paintings? Do you think you would be able to tell it was Lichtenstein’s work? What elements and principles do you see most often in his work?

2nd and 4th period Create your own Comic Strip Painting and Figure 1 ½- 2 weeks Objectives: Become familiar with Roy Lichtenstein and his work Create your own unique comic character Create a painting with your own unique character in style of Lichtenstein Create a clay figure of your character 6th and 7th period Create your own Comic Strip Strip and Painting 1 ½- 2 weeks Objectives: Become familiar with Roy Lichtenstein and his work Create your own unique character Create a painting with your own unique character in style of Lichtenstein Understand the creative process and development of a cartoon from brainstorming to final draft Create your own comic strip or book