Born in New York in 1923, Roy Lichtenstein spent some years teaching in college before finally making the break and becoming a professional artist in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s he had begun to make his name in the Pop Art movement, along with Andy Warhol. Lichtestein's big idea was to show that even "popular" art ( hence the term Pop Art )  could be considered as true art, despite not having the support of the New York College of Art academics. His subject matter was anywhere that popular culture used art - most often in comic books and adverts.  As time went on and the 60s turned to the 70s and 80s, his style developed into a much wider and richer portfolio. He showed how his stylistic innovations could be used to create works influenced by Cubists, surrealists, Futurists, landscape and still life artists. He represented many earlier phases of the development of Modernism and is far more than just a copy illustrator producing "big cartoons".

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