File:Roy_Lichtenstein,_painter_1969_(cropped).jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
OverviewAI-generated
Roy Lichtenstein was an American male artist born on October 27, 1923. He was recognized as a member of the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. Lichtenstein had five children and passed away in 1997.
His artistic output includes works such as "Collagen 1994," "Brad '61," and "pop masterpieces, 1961-1964." Other listed titles include "Lichtenstein, Roy Lichtenstein, schilderijen, emails, assemblages, tekeningen." Open Library records indicate he is associated with 61 works, while Crossref lists five works and Europeana Sparql lists two.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Europeana Sparql, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 1997
- Works
- 61
Top works
- Roy Lichtenstein, Collagen 1994
- Roy Lichtenstein, schilderijen, emails, assemblages, tekeningen
- Brad '61
- Lichtenstein
- Roy Lichtenstein, pop masterpieces, 1961-1964
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1923-10-27
- Active to
- 1997-09-29
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 20
- Total plays
- 28
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Roy+Lichtenstein">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,516x
- The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,049x
- The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation.
· 1995 · cited 14,832x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,118x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “What interests me is to paint the kind of anti-sensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward — neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”
- “Pop Art is the use of commercial art as a subject matter in painting, I suppose. It was hard to get a painting that was despicable enough so that no one would hang it – everybody was hanging everything. It was almost acceptable to hang a dripping paint rag, everybody [in America, mainly in New York, 1950s] was accustomed to this. The one thing everyone hated was commercial art; and apparently they didn’t hate that enough either.”
- “'How can you [accept] exploitation?' 'How can you like the complete mechanization of work?' 'How can you like bad art?' I have to answer that I accept it as being there, in the world.”
- “I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comics are interesting as subject matter. There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we're not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism and terrorism.”
- “Organized perception is what is art all about.. .It is a process. It has nothing to do with any external form the painting takes, it has to do with a way of building a unified pattern of seeing...”
- “My work is actually different from comic strips in that every mark is really in a different place, however slight the difference seems to some. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Roy Lichtenstein, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~34 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (/ˈlɪktənˌstaɪn/ LIK-tən-STYN; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American artist. A leading figure of the Pop Art movement, he is best known for his large-scale paintings inspired by comic books, advertisements, and mass-produced imagery. Lichtenstein's art is represented in major museum collections worldwide, and he remains one of the most influential and recognizable artists of the 20th century.
Emerging in the early 1960s, Lichtenstein gained international recognition for works that employed bold outlines, flat colors, and his signature use of Ben-Day dots—a mechanical printing technique he meticulously replicated by hand. Through this approach, Lichtenstein challenged traditional distinctions between "high" art and popular culture, transforming seemingly banal source material into monumental, self-aware compositions. His work often explored themes of romance, war, consumerism, and art itself, frequently incorporating irony and detachment to comment on modern visual culture.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roy Lichtenstein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.