This is my
review of the artist Roy Lichtenstein. Roy Lichtenstein was an American artist
and was part of the Pop art movement of the 1960’s.
He used
comic strips cartoons for his work, drawing on the kind of imagery that was
popular with the public at that time. He would take one of the pictures from
the comic strip, working on just one frame.
What he would do would be to create a small sketch of the composition,
changing it slightly so that it became a ‘new’ piece of work. He would then create a larger image by projecting
an image of the size wanted onto the canvas, and sketching it on. He then used
a technique called Ben-Day dots. This printing
technique involved placing a sheet of steel with holes punched through it onto
the canvas, and then rolling oil paint onto it, finally taking a toothbrush to
rub the paint through the holes. The colours he used were the primary colours red,
blue, yellow and the colour black.
He also used
Magna which is a type of acrylic paint in his work and you can see this in his
most famous works, ‘The Drowning girl’, ‘Wham!’, and “in the car”.
I like the technique
although I have never done it before, but from what I have seen, from some
research, the technique looks enjoyable.
I chose this
artist to look at because I liked his work, and have done since I was young , I
have always wondered how he did his artwork. I like his use of bold colours,
and I think the comic strip style is very striking; the fact that the face
fills the frame. I like the fashion of that particular era, and Lichtenstein’s
work appears to reflect the changing social scene, with the
bold colours reflecting more liberated times.
Here is another attempt of mine, this is Liensteins ‘In the Car. Again I found getting the correct proportions difficult
