Roy Lichtenstein (
October 27,
1923 -
September 29,
1997) was a prominent
American pop artist, whose work borrowed heavily from popular advertising and
comic styles, which he himself described as being "as artificial as possible." Using oil and
Magna paint his best known works, such as
Drowning Girl (
1963), feature thick outlines, bold colors and
Benday Dots to represent certain colors, as if created by
photographic reproduction. Rather than attempt to reproduce his subjects, his work tackles the way
mass media portrays them.
Lichtenstein was born and died in Manhattan in New York City.