ARTART

Year 8 Photography

Task:

Create a artist research page on the pop artist Roy Lichenstein.

Include:

Information about the artist

Images of the artist s work

Own drawings of the artists work (You can use your drawing from the 3rd page)

Questions to include:

1. When art movement was Roy Lichenstein’s work a part of?

Roy Lichenstein was part of the art movement ________ in the ________ ‘s (date)

2. Why does Lichenstein’s work link to that art movement?

Lichenstein’s work is Pop art because ______________________________

3. How can you recognize Lichenstein’s style? (Colours, look, style)

Lichtenstein's work is recognisable by _________

4. What was Lichensstein inspired by?

Roy Lichenstein was inspired by ___________.

2. What art techniques does Lichenstein use that was normally used for comic books?

Roy Lichenstein’s work can be characterized by art techniques such as___________

3. What controversy surrounded Lichesnteins work and why?

5. What do you think of the artwork?

Art critiques questioned Lichensteins techniques because

___________________

Remember to think about presentation, how could you make your page look

like the artists work - Bold colours, circles/dots, primary colours, comic book

style text.

• Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York in 1923. He

became famous for his bright and bold paintings of

comic strip cartoons as well as his paintings of eve-

ryday objects.

• Roy Lichenstein is one of the leading American pop

artists during the 60’s.

• His work reflects modern typographic and printing

techniques such as ben-day dots and he makes use

of common images.

• In the early 1960s, he developed a new style of print

that mimicked comic book frames.

• Roy Lichtenstein’s use of comic book graphics was pretty revolutionary for his time be-

cause it caused people to see popular culture as art.

• Lichtenstein drew heavily on DC Comics for his art work. He made extensive use of Ben

-Day dots, which are used for shading in comic book graphics.

• Lichtenstein chose colours carefully, to imitate the four colours of printers’ inks.

• When Lichensteins work was first seen,

art critics questioned his originality– at

the time there were no copyright laws,

and so his ‘reproductions’ were a moral

controversy rather than legal.

• He was sometimes accused of copying

comics exactly, but he said that he

made changes to the pictures – right

down to the tiniest placement of indi-

vidual dots. He was also criticized for using very basic painting techniques.

• His work served to bridge the gap between the “high” classic art and the “low” art of popular culture.

Interesting fact: Lichtenstein’s success with his comic book art really annoyed Andy Warhol, who had been experimenting with the same thing! Lichtenstein’s pieces were picked up by a well-known gallery and exhibited first, which caused Warhol to look elsewhere for inspiration. This is how he came to make his wildly successful Campbell Soup Cans prints!