Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was a very influential artist during the Psychedelic era. His most notable contribution to the time period were his works in the pop art genre, a genre which he helped to create. This contribution completely changed the course of modern art by rejuvenationg the american art scene by drawing upon the style of art most commonly associated with newspaper and comic books.

"As with his most celebrated Pop paintings of the 1960s, Lichtenstein gravitated toward what he would characterize as the “dumbest” or “worst” visual item he could find and then went on to alter or improve it. In the 1960s, commercial art was considered beneath contempt by the art world; in the early 1950s, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, nineteenth-century American narrative and genre paintings were at the nadir of their reputation among critics and collectors. Paraphrasing, particularly the paraphrasing of despised images, became a paramount feature of Lichtenstein’s art. Well before finding his signature mode of expression in 1961, Lichtenstein called attention to the artifice of conventions and taste that permeated art and society." source

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