Pop ArtThe pop art movement beginning in the mid-1950s was one of the biggest modern art movements ever, it is considered to have been the art movement that preceded postmodern art. Pop art is often associated with comics, Campbells soup can labels, and the famous diptych of Marilyn Monroe. There ... Read More
Roy Lichtenstein, a pop artist of the 1960s, became well-known for his use of comic strips as high art. Using comic inspired images, Lichtenstein would create emotionally taxing scenes of damsels in distress. Sometimes Lichtenstein would use actual comics and crop them so they only portrayed the woman in trouble, ... Read More
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27th, 1923. He described his childhood as quiet and uneventful. His father was a realtor his mother was a housewife. Art was not taught at the school Roy attended, but when he turned fourteen he began taking Saturday morning ... Read More
Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein Two Pop ArtistsAmerican culture was forever changed in the 1960 s. Every walk of life in America had a new beginning because of the changes society endured. The art world was no different, radical thinking and new ideas prevailed in all areas of art. Two men ... Read More
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27th, 1923. He described his childhood as quiet and uneventful. His father was a realtor his mother was a housewife. Art was not taught at the school Roy attended, but when he turned fourteen he began taking Saturday morning ... Read More
Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein Two Pop Artists American culture was forever changed in the 1960s. Every walk of life in America had a new beginning because of the changes society endured. The art world was no different, radical thinking and new ideas prevailed in all areas of art. Two men ... Read More
Roy Lichtenstein Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27th, 1923. He described his childhood as quiet and uneventful. His father was a realtor his mother was a housewife. Art was not taught at the school Roy attended, but when he turned fourteen he began taking Saturday ... Read More