Roy Lichtenstein Posters, Prints, Fine Art

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Girl With Hair Ribbon

Sunrise Art Print

M-Maybe Art Print

Blam Art Print

Drowning Girl Art Print

Kiss IV Serigraph

Interior with Skyline

Hey You Art Print

Ohhh...Alright...

As I Opened Fire panel

Whaam! panel 1 of 2

As I Opened Fire

Thinking of Him Art Print

Spray Art Print

Masterpiece Art Print

Lichtenstein had been an enthusiastic jazz buff, frequently going to concerts in the Apollo Theater of Harlem. Following graduation from the Franklin School, Lichtenstein began to take classes at the Art Students League of New York as summer classes, in which he was to study under the charge of Reginald Marsh.

Lichtenstein then departed New York to enroll at the Ohio State University since with the University he could be provided studio classes as well as a degree in fine arts. His lessons had been disrupted with a three year stretch with the army in World War II from 1943 - 1946. During 1946, Lichtenstein came back to his home town to be able to spend time with his dying father after having been released from the army by the Servicemen's Readjustment Act. He went back to lessons in Ohio, where he studied under the supervision of instructor Hoyt L. Sherman. Sherman is commonly viewed to have bore a substantial effect on Lichtenstein later art, and Lichtenstein would afterward call a fledgling studio which the artist sponsored at OSU the Hoyt L. Sherman Studio Art Center. Lichtenstein enrolled in graduate curriculum at Ohio State where he as well was employed as an art teacher. He would retain his art instructor position on and off during the next ten years. In 1949 Lichtenstein obtained a M.F.A. degree with the Ohio State University as well as in wed Isabel Wilson. Wilson had been previously wed to Cleveland, Ohio painter Michael Sarisky. The couple's marriage ended in divorce in 1965. During 1951 Lichtenstein held his initial one-man show with Carlebach Gallery of New York.

Whaam! panel 2 of 2

No Thank you! Art Print

Blam Art Print

Girl with Ball

Girl at Piano Serigraph

Reflection Miror

Ball of Twine

Lincoln Center Film Festival Giclee

Nude with Blue Hair

New Wave Festival

Still Life with Crystal Bowl

Study for Preparedness

Thinking Art Print

Pop Art is ART

That year as well meant a relocation to Cleveland for Lichtenstein, he stayed in the city for the next six years, however all the while regularly going back to New York. While living in Chicago, the artist took on a wide variety of employments. He worked as a draftsman and also a window designer between his times spent painting. His art during this period went through changes, and alters from Cubism and Expressionism. During 1954 his first son, David Hoyt Lichtenstein had been born. He then had the second son in 1956, Mitchell Lichtenstein. During 1957 he relocated to upstate New York and started instructing once more. It was in this period that he assumed an Abstract Expressionism manner, a latter change over to this type of art work.

Lichtenstein began teaching in 1958 New York with State University of New York of Oswego. All the same, the hard upstate winters were exacting a price on him as well as his wife.

In 1960, Lichtenstein began instructing with Rutgers University. Here he met Allan Kaprow who was also a professor with the University and Kaprow had a great influence on Lichtenstein's work. The atmosphere the artist found himself in was productive and served to reignite his pursuit in proto-pop works. In 1961 Lichtenstein started his initial Pop art works, applying cartoon figures as well as methods featuring the look of commercialized publishing. This stage of his artistic development would persist until 1965. His style dealt with the application of advertisement imagery, through which he indicated consumerism as well as home making issues. His original painting to have the large scale practice of strong edged forms as well as the Benday Dots for which he became famous had been a painting titled Look Mickey. This work had originally been created due to a challenge issued by one of his sons, who had shown his father a Mickey Mouse comic book and stated; "I bet you can't paint as good as that, eh, Dad?" During this year he made 6 additional paintings with identifiable subjects inspired by gum wrappers as well as cartoons. During 1961 Leo Castelli begun exhibiting Lichtenstein's art at his gallery in New York, and as a result, the artist had held his initial one man exhibition. The exhibit had been at the New York gallery during 1962 and was a success. The whole collection was purchased by important collectors of the period prior to the exhibit even opening. Interestingly, Castelli had declined the art of a different pop artist of Lichtenstein's generation, Andy Warhol. During September 1963 Lichtenstein told the Douglass College at Rutgers that he would be taking a leave of absence from his instructing position.

During this period, Lichtenstein popularity began to grwonot only in America but also he started to achieve a degree of international fame. He went back to New York so that he might remain in the place that was the center of the art world. Lichtenstein left his teaching position with Rutgers University in 1964 in order to have the time to focus on primarily on his art work. He created his most famous paintings with the use of oil as well as Magna paint, such is seen in works like Drowning Girl. These paintings feature heavy outlines, brash colors as well as Benday Dots which wold create strong colors, as if produced by photographic replica instead of paint. The artist did not seek to recreate his own themes or subjects, his work took on a manner in which items are presented by the mass media. Lichtenstein managed to not take himself too seriously however: once his art had been first come to the attention of the art world and was being purchased, several art critics of the period disputed its originality. Generally the art critics took no effort to be optimistic about the paintings.

His most celebrated picture is arguably Whaam!, Among the earlier recognized cases of pop art, modified a comic-book board of a 1962 issue of DC Comics' All-American Men of War. The art work renders a champion aircraft discharging a rocket to an enemy airplane, accompanied by a red-and-yellow detonation. This cartoon fashion is intensified with the application of the echoic inscription "Whaam!" and the enclosed subtitle "I pressed the fire control... and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky..."

Much of his most famous paintings are comparatively near, however not precise, replicates of comic-book boards, a theme he mostly given up during 1965. He would sometimes merged comics in his art in various manners in following decades. These boards were first created by such comics artists as Jack Kirby as well as DC Comics artists Russ Heath, Tony Abruzzo as well as Jerry Grandenetti, who seldom found any credit. Jack Cowart, executive director for the Lichtenstein Foundation contends the opinion that Lichtenstein was a copyist.

Lichtenstein died of pneumonia during 1997 in New York University Medical Center. The DreamWorks Records logo was his last completed project.

Abstraction (1975)
Abstraction with Guitar (1975)
Airplane (1978)
Alien (1983)
Aloah
Amerind Composition (1979)
Angel before the Castle (c.1950-1951)
Apple and Grapefruit (1980)
Arrrrrf ! (1962)
Art about Art Poster (1978)
As I opened fire (1963)
As I opened Fire (1964)
As I opened Fire Poster (1966)
Aurora (c.1965-1966)
Ball of Twine (1963)
Bathroom (1961)
Baum (1992)
Black and White Sunrise (1964)
Black Flowers (1961)
Blang (1962)
Blue and green Modern Painting (1967)
Blue Nude (1995)
Bronco busters (1951-1952)
Bruck Stroke with Still Life VII (1996)
Brush Stroke #4 (1986)
Brushstroke (1965)
Brushstroke (1971)
Brushstroke (c.1972)
Brushstroke Head (1986)
Brushstroke I (1986)
Brushstroke III (1986)
Brushstroke Still Life III (1996)
Brushstroke Still Life with Lamp (1997)
Brushstroke V (1986)
Brushstroke VI (1986)
Brushtroke (1965)
Castelli Handhake Poster (1962)
Castelli Handshake Poster (1962)
Chinese Landscape I (1995)
Collage for Interior with Painting of Bather (1997)
Collage for Interior with red Wall (1991)
Collage for Painting on Blue and Yellow Wall (1983)
Collage for Salzburger Festspiele (1991)
Collage for Venetian School II (1994-1995)
Collage for Yellow Apple (1980)
Composition (1967)
Composition abstraite
Composition II (1995)
Crak! (1963-1964)
Crying Girl (1963)
Crying Girl (1963-1964)
Cubist Still Life (1974)
Cup of Coffee (1961)
Divided Sea and Sky (1965)
Double architectural Motifo (1971-1972)
Drowning Muse (1986)
Dscape 10 (1967)
Duridium (1964)
Eccentric Scientist (1964-1965)
Emeralds (1961)
Entablature (1974)
Entablature (1975)
Entablature (1976)
Evening sea (1964)
Eventide (1964)
Explosion II (1965)
Expressionist Head (1979)
Figure with Banner (1978)
Figures in a Landscape (1977)
Fish and Sky, from Ten from Leo Castelli
Foot and Hand (1964)
Foot and Hand (1970)
Foot and Hand/Foot Medication
Foot Medication Poster (1963)
Forest Scene (1980)
Forget it, Forget me...
Gas Station Attendant (Yellow Man) (1962)
Girl in Mirror (1965)
Girl with piano (1963)
Girl with tear II (1977)
Grapes (1972)
Green Apple (1981)
Grrrrrrrrrrrr
Guitar (1974)
Happy Tears (1964)
Haystack #7 (1969)
Haystacks (1969)
Head (1986)
Head II (1986)
Head V (1986)
Head with Monocle (1980)
Head, yellow & black (1962)
Hot Dog (1964)
I can see the whole Room
I don't care! I'd rather sink than call Brad for help!
I... I's sorry (1965-1966)
Imperfect Painting #1 (1986)
Imperfect Painting (1987)
Imperfect Painting (1988)
In deep thought (1980)
In the Car (1963)
Indians pursued by American dragoons, after wimar (c.1955)
Interior with Ajax (1997)
Interior with Diana (1997)
Interior with Restful Paintings (1991)
Interior with Three Hanging Lamps (1991)
It is...With Me! (1963)
Joanna (1968)
Jobs...not Cheese!
Kinetic seascape #10 (1966)
Kinetic Seascape #8 (1966)
Kiss II (1962)
Knock Knock Poster (1975)
Landscape
Landscape (1964)
Landscape (1965)
Landscape 8 from Ten Landscapes (1967)
Landscape with Column (1965)
Landscape with Red Sky (1985)
Landscape with seated Figure (1996)
Le (1975)
Le lever du soleil (1966)
Lemon and Apple (1981)
Lincoln Center (1966)
Lion Skin (1967)
Littoral (1965)
Mirror #1 (1969)
Mirror #10 (1972)
Mirror #17 (1971)
Mirror #2 (1971)
Mirror #47 (1971)
M-Maybe
Modern Head Pendant (1968)
Modern Head Brooch (1968)
Modern head brooch 1963
Modern Head Broock (1968)
Modern heat pendant (1968)
Modern Painting (1967)
Modern painting in Porcelain (1967)
Modern Painting with Fishes (1967)
Modern Painting with Green Segment (1967)
Modern Painting with Red Circle (1967)
Modern Painting with Steps (1967)
Modern Painting with Target (1967)
Modern Painting with Yellow Arc (1967)
Modern Painting with Yellow Interweave (1967)
Modular Painting with four panels, No.9 (1970)
Modular Painting with Four Panles IX (1970)
Monolith (1984)
Moonscape (c.1965)
Moonscape Banner (1966)
Next Waves Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music (1983)
Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn, Academy of Music (1963)
Next Waves Festival (1983)
Non objective I (1964)
Nude with Street Scene Painting (1995)
Nurse
Ohne Titel (1971)
Olympic Games (1984)
Oriental landscape (1973)
Oriental Still Life with Pearls (1973)
Painting (Still Life with Envelope) (1982)
Painting in Gold Frame (1983)
Painting: Light Yellow Brushtrokes (1983)
Painting: Silver Frame (1983)
Painting: Silver Frame (1984)
Paintings (1982)
Path through the forest (1984)
Peace through Chemistry II (1970)
Photo Ocean Motion (1966)
Plus an Minus I (1988)
Plus and Minus III (1988)
Portrait II (1981)
Presentation 1 (1992)
Project for Luna Luna (1986)
Puris Painting with Glass, Guitar and Pipe (1975)
Purist Painting with Bottles (1975)
Purits Painting with Pitcher, Glass, classical Column (1975)
Rain (1985)
Razzmatazz (1978)
Reclining Bather (1977)
Red Apple (1981)
Red Barn I (1969)
Red Ocean Motion (1966)
Red Ocean Motion (1966)
Red Painting (1965)
Red Tree (1979)
Reflection on Thud! (1990)
Reflections on Crash (1989)
Reflections on Jessica Helms (1990)
Reflections on the Prom (1990)
Reflections: Mystical Painting (1989)
Sailboats (1973)
Sailboats III (1974)
Screen with Brushstroke (1988)
Seascape #20 (1966)
Seascape (1965)
Setting Sun and Sea (1964)
Shipboard Girl (1965)
Silver Skies (1965)
Sinking Sun (1964)
Spray II (1963)
Stedelijk Museum Poster (1967)
Stedelijk Poster (1967)
Step-on Can with Leg (1961)
Still Life with Bamboo Sticks (1973)
Still life with bird (c.1955)
Still Life with Candy Jar (1972)
Still Life with Cherry Pie (1975)
Still life with crystal goblet and lemons (1972)
Still life with Expressionist Painting (1982)
Still Life with green Apple (1994)
Still Life with green Vase (1972)
Still Life with Lamp (1976)
Still Life with Oysters (1973)
Still Life with Pitcher (1974)
Still Life with Sculpture (1974)
Still Life with Stretcher, Mirror, Bowl of Fruit (1972)
Stretcher frame with vertical bar (1963)
Stretcher Frame with vertical Bars (1968)
Studio Wall with Hanging String (1973)
Study for Interior with Skyline (1992)
Study for Modern Room (1990)
Study for Reflections on Soda Fountain (1990)
Sunrise (1965)
Sunrise (1966)
Sunrise, from 7 Objects in a Box (1966)
Suspended Mobile (1990)
Suspended Mobile (1990-1991)
Swimming Figure with Mirror (1977)
Temple (1964)
Tex ! (1962)
The bell, comic object (1963)
The Castle (1950)
The Knights (1951)
The Mask, from Brushstroke Figures Series (1989)
The must be the Place (1965)
The Nurse (1964)
The red Horseman (1976)
The Ring (1962)
The white Tree (1980)
Things on the Wall (1973)
This must be the Place (1965)
Torpedo... Los ! (1963)
Trigger finger (1963)
Turkey, 1961
Two Apples (1981)
Two figures (1977)
Two figures (1978)
Two Paintings: Apple (1983)
Tzing! (1962)
Untitled (Landscape Series) (1964)
Untitled (Landscape)
Untitled NR.331 (sunrise) (1965)
Untitled, Mirror (1970)
Vick! I-I thought I herd your Voice! (1964)
Viip! (1962)
Volume, Seascape II (1965)
Water Lilies with Cloud (1992)
Water Lilies with Japanese Bridge (1992)
Water Lilies with Willows (1992)
Water Lilies-Pink Flower (1992)
Water Lily Pond with Reflections (1992)
Waterlilies (1992)
Weatherford surrenders to Jackson (1953)
Whaam! (1967)
Whamm! (1963)
White Brushtroke I (1965)
Woman II (1982)
Woman in Landscape (1980)
Woman reading (1980)
Woman with flower (1978)
Woman with Peanuts (1962)
Yellow Abstraction (1968)
Yellow and white Brushstrokes (1965)
Yellow Apple (1981)
Yellow Brushstroke (1970)
Yellow Sunrise (1965)
Ziing.. (1962)