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... Roy Lichtenstein, known as the “master of the cliché,” is one of the most well known Pop Artists, mainly for his use of comic strip figures and situations.
Roy Lichtenstein was born in October of 1923 in New York City. ...
In 1961, Lichtenstein produced several paintings of images of characters taken from comic strips where he first made use of his signature Benday dots, lettering, and speech bubbles. ...
Lichtenstein’s work has a sense of humor and an air of irony about it that at first was widely rejected. ... ” At this time Lichtenstein was creating parodies of abstract expressionism with his Brushstroke series – a series of paintings that took the subconscious painterliness of abstract expressionism and forced them to be deliberate, heavily outlined, characters of brushstrokes, usually with a series of Benday dots behind them. ... Lichtenstein felt that the black lines and the dots communicated to the viewer that it was not serious art they were looking at, but humorous.
It is safe to say that almost all of Roy Lichtenstein’s series have an element of humor and cliché. ... Lichtenstein states in his 1966 interview with BBC correspondent David Sylvester that “[t]he cliché is a cliché if you don’t know anything else, but if you can alter this cliché slightly, to make it do something else in the painting, it still seems to retain its cliché quality to people looking at it.
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