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Onomatopoeic Art

Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997) was an American popart artist. He is best known for his enormously enlarged cartoons. After his art studies in New York and Columbus Liechtenstein taught art himself. In his spare time he painted abstract paintings and made parodies of American art from the twenties. In1960 he came into contact with Claes Oldenburg and the style elements from advertising and comic strips. He started to use use grids, dots, black outlines and bright colours, the style who made him famous. From 1962 Lichtenstein used the works of Monet, Picasso and Mondrian as the inspiration for his art and he painted sunsets in their style. Most of his work however is based on advertisements and cartoons.

Liechtenstein´s artworks use primary colours sometimes with green, text balloons, raster dots as we know from newspaper photographs and thick black outlines. 

Have a look to our projects on Roy Lichtenstein!