Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. Using the comic strip as his main inspiration, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner.
As part of my 'Communicating Ideas in 2D' unit for college I chose him as one of my 4 artists. I've always saw all those 'pop art makeup tutorials' on youtube and really wanted to try some of Lichtenstein's work, some of my favourite pieces include: 'Thinking of him', 'The melody haunts my reverie' and his cover for 1966 newsweek's pop art issue. There is only one thing that I really struggled with, with this artists which was the technique of applying the dots to the face that Roy does so well..nevertheless it was a puzzle which i enjoyed trying to solve.
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