ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist best known for his boldly-colored collections of comic strips and advertisements.
Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born in New York City where it all began on October 27, 1923. In the 1960s, Lichtenstein became a leading figure of the new Pop Art movement. Inspired by  the daily newspaper advertisements and comic strips, Lichtenstein's bright, graphic works made the American popular culture and the art world itself crazy.

Most famously, Lichtenstein made the Ben-day dots appropriate to his style , to convey texture and gradations of color—a stylistic language relating to his subjects. Ben-Day dots differ from halftone dots in that the Ben-Day dots are always of equal size and distribution in a specific area.Lichtenstein took images from gum wrappers, cartoons and comic strips then he recomposed them and then blew up the images to a large scale, reproducing the heavy black outlines, primary colors and Ben-day dots .

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Lichtenstein's best-known work from this period is "Whaam!," which he painted in 1963, using a comic book panel from a 1962 issue of DC Comics' All-American Men of War as his inspiration. Other works of the 1960s featured cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and advertisements for food and household products . 
Lichtenstein became known for his deadpan humor that he produced in his art . By the mid-1960s, he was nationally known and recognized as a leader in the Pop Art movement.

Techniques used by Lichtenstein: Gesso is traditionally a preparation of plaster of Paris and glue. Modern painters use an acrylic version. The purpose of gesso is to prevent the canvas from absorbing too much paint. It gives the canvas a uniform white appearance. Magna is a type of acrylic paint. Lichtenstein liked to use Magna because it is easily removed with turpentine and because he feels it shows color better than many water-based acrylic paints. For a silk-screening print, also known as a serigraph, an artist places a stencil on a stretched piece of silk. He puts a paper underneath and then draws ink across the top of the silk with a squeegee - a kind of rubber-and-wood paddle. A woodcut is a print made from a carved block of wood to which ink is applied

MY REVIEW

DROWNING GIRL

In this artwork Lichtenstein shows the woman's boyfriend standing on a boat above her as she drowns and the text box quotes " I don't care ! i rather sink..than call brad for help !" 

In this art he created what people normally read in comics to a whole new different dramatic level using blue and bold black lines.To me this work shouts out her breaking heart and that she does not want to see the person responsible for it . 

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WHAAM!

In 1963 he produced his most famous painting - Whaam! - a cartoon-style picture of a fighter aircraft firing a rocket at an enemy plane complete with a vivid explosion and the caption "I pressed the fire control... and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky..." This art for me was the most vivid of them all , as he used bold and bright colors like red , yellow and black bold lines . As the word said "Whaaaaam" , it had affect same on me . Like "whaaam!" , sound of crashing and big loud explosion