Salute your favorite cartoon and comic illustrators on Cartoonists' Day!
Artist Roy Lichtenstein drew inspiration from comic strips, advertising, and benday dots of cheap printing processes.
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Salute your favorite cartoon and comic illustrators on Cartoonists' Day!
Artist Roy Lichtenstein drew inspiration from comic strips, advertising, and benday dots of cheap printing processes.
In the 1960s, [Lichtenstein] reigned with Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist as the triumvirate of New York Pop art. Like them, he wanted his pictures "to look programmed or impersonal," reflecting the detachment of American consumer culture at that moment.
A notable screenprint from 1965 is Sweet Dreams, Baby!, one of a series of works he designed around the concept of soap-opera comics. Learn more about Lichtenstein in a 1997 tribute in our journal American Art.
Source: Katherine Manthorne. American Art journal. (vol. 11, no. 3) Fall 1997.
Pictured: Roy Lichtenstein, 1923–1997, Sweet Dreams, Baby! from the portfolio, 11 Pop Artists, Volume III, 1965, color serigraph on paper, 35 3/4 x 25 5/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Philip Morris, Incorporated.