Roy Fox Lichtenstein: Pop Art

Pop art started in the mid 50’s in Brittan and then later spread to the US. It came from Dadaism appropriating images of common objects such as washing powder, soda bottles and soup cans as it was hard to find new interesting good quality things to paint after many supplies were used in world war 2 so the artists had to appropriate these regular items to make them eye catching and icons. Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923. He grew up in New York with his father Milton Lichtenstein and mother Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. When Roy Lichtenstein was younger he enjoyed science and comic books and not untill his teenage years when he became intrested in art and started taking classes from the age of 14. He went to Ohio State university