Happy Benday to You!
Known for his Pop Art style that enlarged comic-strip style images and revealed the benday dots of cheap printing processes, artist Roy Lichtenstein was born on this day in 1923.Born in New York, Roy Lichtenstein (1923–97) studied at the Art Students League under Reginald Marsh and did graduate work in art at Ohio State University from 1940 to 1943. He worked as a commercial artist in Cleveland during the early fifties, returning to New York to teach at the New York State College of Education at Oswego in 1957.…
Adopting the images of popular cartoon art, advertisements, and packaging, his work of the early 1960s startled a public used to the heroic abstractions of the New York School artists. Lichtenstein went on to parody Picasso, Mondrian, and other modern masters, but despite his irreverent treatment of these artists, the formal rigor of his compositions won widespread admiration.
Source: National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996).
Pictured: Roy Lichtenstein, 1923–97, Reverie, 1965, color serigraph, 27 1/8 x 23 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Philip Morris Incorporated.
Known for his Pop Art style that enlarged comic-strip style images and revealed the benday dots of cheap printing processes, artist Roy Lichtenstein was born on this day in 1923.Born in New York, Roy Lichtenstein (1923–97) studied at the Art Students League under Reginald Marsh and did graduate work in art at Ohio State University from 1940 to 1943. He worked as a commercial artist in Cleveland during the early fifties, returning to New York to teach at the New York State College of Education at Oswego in 1957.…