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Copyright estate of Roy Lichtenstein | | | Lichtenstein, Roy (1923 - 1997) USA
Interior with Restful Paintings, 1991
Oil and magna on canvas; 299.7 x 292.1 cm Pop Art
UID 102-337
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Biography
The American painter, sculptor, commercial designer and decorator, Lichtenstein studied at the Art Students League (1939) and at Ohio State University (1940-43). Between 1940 and 1960, he continued his studies at the Art Students League in New York. His paintings, largely based on comic strip and advertising stories and techniques, made him one of the central figures of American Pop Art. In 1949, he did a Masters in Fine Arts and, in 1951 he worked his major and most important theme: the history of America and the conquest of the West. He taught at various American universities and, in 1961, definitely abandoned that which had previously characterised his Abstract Expressionist style. He now used comic strips not only in terms of theme but also style, creating Pop paintings with simple chromatic schemes and techniques taken from commercial printing. Lichtenstein argued that comic strip and advertising stories were not at all realistic but, in fact, highly artificial images that conveyed their messages barely using pictorial conventions. In 1962, he held his first one-man show in New York at the Leo Castelli Gallery and, in the same year, produced his first Pop prints, in which the link with comic strips was reinforced by the choice of a technique generally used in commercial printing: the lithograph. Throughout his career, Lichtenstein continued to affirm that compositions of forms and colours obeyed pictorial rules regardless of the subject dealt with. The succession of styles in his work made it a way of understanding artistic expression as the expression of an ideal state.
Exhibitions
My Thirty Years with Roy Lichtenstein, A celebration and an Exhibition of His 'Interiors' Leo Castelli Gallery, USA 01-02-1992 ~ 28-02-1992
Roy Lichtenstein: Paintings and Collages 1960-1993 Laura Carpenter Fine Art, USA 01-06-1993 ~ 31-07-1993
The Berardo Collection - A Voyage through the 20th Century Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-12-2004 ~ 30-04-2005
Exhibition to honor the installation of Neil Rudinstine as President of Harvard University Harvard University Art Museum, USA 01-11-1991 ~ 01-01-1992
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Berardo Museum Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007
Paradise Motel Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 13-11-2010 ~ 26-12-2011
Bibliography
Christie's, Post-War, 2001 Published by Christie's
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
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