Roy Lichtenstein

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Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27, 1923, and grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side he Inspired by advertisements and comic strips, Lichtenstein's bright, graphic works parodied American popular culture and the art world itself .He became famous for his bright and bold paintings of comic strip cartoons.

He is one of the famous pop artist. His art work is bit old in pop art style. Using primary colors, thick outlines, and Ben-Day points, Liechtenstein tried to make his work look like a machine. Most of his artwork’s women’s are crying. His masterpiece was “Crying Girl”. “Crying Girl” was inspired by a strip of comics titled “Secret Hearts” that revealed the inside of relationships of that time.

More-“Roy Lichtenstein's Crying Girl.” Guy Hepner, 20 July 2017, guyhepner.com/roy-lichtensteins-crying-girl/