LICHTENSTEIN, Roy

Lichtenstein's name is most familiar from his Pop Art canvases of the early sixties, often consisting of blowups of single frames from comic strips, bubblegum wrappers, and advertising art images. His use of exaggerated dot screens (imitating newspaper printing), bold colors, and even comic-strip bubbles to portray his characters' thoughts all contribute to an essentially ironic vision of his subject matter. Later Lichtenstein paintings parody twentieth-century masters, including Picasso, Mondrian...