Roy Lichtenstein

On the 27th October, 1923 it was born to the pop art to painter Roy Lichtenstein in the New York part of town of Manhattan.

Beside the visit of a private school Roy Lichtenstein booked from 1939 courses in the kind of Students league of New York. As for example street parties belong beside models scenes from New York to Lichtenstein's to preferential motives.

After the High School Roy Lichtenstein visited the School of Fine Arts in Ohio State University, discontinuous in 1943-45 by the military service.

In 1949 Marrying Roy Lichtenstein Isabel Wilson and agreed with her 2 sons. He dealt with different directions, how expressionism or abstraction.

From the middle of the 50s went of bright stone works for the first time in the direction of pop art. He exhibited his often experimental works at first with low success.

In the end, by the imitation of industrial pressure technique Roy Lichtenstein broke with all traditions. His style mixed elements of the abstraction with comic.

For his artistic salaries Roy Lichtenstein received in 1995 the Kyoto price.

Roy Lichtenstein succumbed on the 29th September, 1997 to a pneumonia.