Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27 1923 and died September 29 1997. He was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, and others. He became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic foundation of pop art better than any other through parody. Favoring the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it imitated often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He described Pop Art as, "not 'American' painting but actually “industrial painting"
Sunrise
Sunrise is a pop art picture made in 1965 by Roy Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein's Sunrise reinterprets the landscape by subjecting it to his unique "Pop" filter, creating a faux mechanical sunrise. Sunrise is a relatively early work in Lichtenstein’s career, just a couple years after he began to gain notoriety for his paintings and just two years before his first museum retrospective exhibition. It was these works that created the foundation for the Pop Art movement.

His works normally feature thick outlines, bold colours, and Benday Dots, and are shown as if created by photographic reproduction. Though Lichtenstein often included the use of advertising imagery and reproductions of comic-book panels, his work was never an attempt to exactly copy; Instead, Lichtenstein’s work tackled the way in which mass media portrays different aspects of popular culture by taking common place images and transforming them into “high