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Copyright estate of Roy Lichtenstein | | | Lichtenstein, Roy (1923 - 1997) USA
Mirror, 1971
Oil and magna on canvas; 183.1 x 91.4 cm Pop Art
UID 102-338
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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
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 28-03-2003 ~ 28-09-2003
Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980 (New York) Whitney Museum of American Art, USA 01-01-1981 ~ 30-05-1981
Roy Lichtenstein The Mirror Paintings Mary Boone Gallery, USA 01-01-1989 ~ 31-12-1989
Roy Lichtenstein (NY) The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, USA 01-01-1993 ~ 30-06-1993
Roy Lichtenstein (Munich) Haus der Kunst, Germany 01-07-1993 ~ 31-12-1993
Roy Lichtenstein (Hamburg) Deichfarhallen, Germany 01-01-1994 ~ 30-06-1994
Roy Lichtenstein (Seattle) Seattle Art Museum, USA 01-07-1994 ~ 31-12-1994
Roy Lichtenstein (Brussels) Palais des Beaux Arts (Bruxelles), Belgium 01-01-1995 ~ 30-06-1995
Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980 (Paris) Musée des Arts Decoratifs, France 01-10-1983 ~ 31-12-1983
Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980 (St. Louis) Art Museum (St. Louis), USA 01-06-1981 ~ 31-10-1981
Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980 (Fort Worth) Fort Worth Art Museum, USA 01-11-1981 ~ 31-03-1982
Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980 (Cologne) Museum Ludwig, Germany 01-04-1982 ~ 31-08-1982
Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980 (Madrid) Fundación Juan March, 01-09-1982 ~ 30-11-1983
Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980 (Montreal) Montreal Museum of fine Arts, Canada 01-01-1993 ~ 31-12-1993
Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980 (Tokyo) Seibu Museum of Art, Japan 01-07-1983 ~ 30-09-1983
Roy Lichtenstein (LA) Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, USA 01-07-1995 ~ 31-12-1995
Lászlo Moholy-Nagy IVAM Centre Julio González, Spain 01-01-1991 ~ 30-04-1991
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Pomar - Autobiography Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-05-2004 ~ 07-11-2004
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Pop 60s Transatlantic Crossing Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 11-09-1997 ~ 17-11-1997
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France 05-10-2001 ~ 14-01-2002
Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980 (Florence) City of Florence, Italy 01-01-1982 ~ 31-12-1982
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Gunma) The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma), Japan 19-02-2005 ~ 27-03-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Hiroshima) Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 29-05-2005 ~ 10-07-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Kochi) The Museum of Art (Kochi), Japan 03-04-2005 ~ 22-05-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Osaka) Daimaru Museum, (Umeda, Osaka), Japan 19-01-2005 ~ 06-02-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Nagoya) Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan 10-09-2005 ~ 30-10-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo) Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Japan 26-07-2005 ~ 28-08-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo) The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Japan 06-11-2004 ~ 26-12-2004
Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo Galeria Diário de Noticias, Portugal 15-03-2006 ~ 05-05-2006
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
A Look at The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-06-2000 ~ 30-09-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo) Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spain 29-06-2006 ~ 26-11-2006
Berardo Museum Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Arriscar o Real Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 08-06-2009 ~ 30-09-2009
Tudo o que é Sólido Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle, 2001 Published by Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon ISBN 2711843319
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Diário de Notícias ISBN 9729335923
Pop '60s Transatlantic Crossing, 1997 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176384
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
Roy Lichtenstein, 1983 Published by Abbeville Press
Roy Lichtenstein, 1993-1995
Roy Lichtenstein, 1993 Published by Tate Gallery
Roy Lichtenstein 1970-1980, 1981
Roy Lichtenstein The Mirror Paintings, 1989 Published by Mary Boone Gallery
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo), 2006 Published by Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza ISBN 8495892529
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
A Look at The Berardo Collection, 2000 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742839
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