Roy Liechtenstein was born in 1927 in New York, where he studied art in the Art students League, later receiving his B.F.A from Ohio State University. He served in the army during serving in Europe for three years. When he got back, he started to paint and take inspiration from the expressionist movement.
Trying his brush strokes at this, he then looked towards the cheap comics that were part of his childhood and found in every home. He reworked the comics to express different issues such as advertisements, products (the hot dog, composition book, transistor radio), the war and romance.
He then took inspiration from other artists and their paintings (the nude, Picasso's cubist paintings), painting studios and landscapes that found inspiration from the print method as well as traditional chinese landscape techniques.
Roy Lichtenstein- Artist Studio "Look Mickey,
1973 Oil, Magna and sand with aluminum powder on canvas.
His studio collection was inspired by Henri Matisse's paintings of his studio. He thus always placed references back to the artifacts found in Matisse's paintings.
Henri Matisse (1869‑1954) studio Interior
Roy Lichtenstein, Galatea
Roy Lichtenstein, Entablature, 1975
Oil, Magna, sand with aluminum powder on Canvas
Roy Lichtenstein, Lacoon, 1988
Oil and Magna on Canvass
Oil and Magna on Canvas
During his later life, he started to introduce expressionist strokes to his work that links back to his first few paintings and attempts at expressionism.
This then leant its hand to his final chinese inspired landscapes that used expressionist painterly strokes as well as his signature print of dots that covered the canvas.
Lichtenstein's "Landscape in Fog" from his Chinese Landscapes series. One of his many non-Pop works in National Gallery's retrospective. Credit: Private collection. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Click here to read more on his biography- http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/tbio?tperson=4711&type=a
To view more of his art works- google images roy lichtenstein retrospective
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