Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein is one of the main architects of the American Pop Art. Among Roy Lichtenstein's works, the most distinctive work is his 1950s American comics as a creative theme paintings. In these works, he will caricature copied and enlarged to the canvas, and use a lot of dots to represent the effect of modern large-scale industrial printing, screen colors and crisp, simple, showing his unique pop style.

 American pop artist will usually appear on television or print media, the general public are familiar with some of the visual image, as an important creative element, everyday things become popular pop artists creative source. But unlike Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg obsessed with television images, Roy Lichtenstein interested in paper print. Lichtenstein chose American comics in print as a basis for creation, to the ordinary things of everyday life and art together, he will be selected to copy and enlarge comic way with traditional painting, creating a its unique style of pop art. Of course, Lichtenstein select screen for the image of his works are well thought out, people see these images and realize that they are easy to distinguish what comes from the publication. Lichtenstein is one of the most pop artists who focus on form, he would repeatedly modified deletions own work details, such as modifying the screen line thickness, and even adjust the distance between the print outlets and outlets. Lichtenstein treated his works like those classic artists like the last picture pack. But the ultimate effect of Lichtenstein works with exactly the opposite meaning, its screen image and the above outlets constantly remind the audience, they are just people in a certain period in print common caricature of it, he wants to closer to the high art and public life away.