ROY LICHTENSTEIN, 73, POP ARTIST.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Roy Lichtenstein, a pioneer of the pop art movement best known for his oversized o·ver·size n. 1. A size that is larger than usual. 2. An oversize article or object. adj. o·ver·size also o·ver·sized Larger in size than usual or necessary. , comic book-style images, died Monday. He was 73. Lichtenstein had been hospitalized at New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the Medical Center for several weeks with an undisclosed illness and died of pneumonia, said Aryn Lieberman, spokeswoman for Leo Castelli Leo Castelli (born September 4, 1907 at Trieste as Leo Krauss – died August 21, 1999) was an art dealer of Italian and Austro-Hungarian Jewish origin. He was best known to the public as the art dealer who showed Andy Warhol's paintings, and whose gallery showcased Gallery, which has represented Lichtenstein since 1962. Prolific and witty, Lichtenstein used his flair for composition to create paintings with a posterlike power. His signature touches were his bold black outlines and the use of the photoengraver's Ben Day dots. His work was inspired by commercial art, and commercial art in turn reappropriated his images. He took a comic drawing from a bubble-gum wrapper A data structure or software that contains ("wraps around") other data or software, so that the contained elements can exist in the newer system. The term is often used with component software, where a wrapper is placed around a legacy routine to make it behave like an object. and blew it up into a full-scale painting. An element of commercial art became an object of fine art. He reproduced the Ben Day dots of comic strips
At their best, his works contained wry observation and sly humor as he appropriated images and reworked them with wit and intelligence. He and other pop artists - so called because they took their materials from popular culture - were reacting to the seriousness of the action painters. ``It was hard to get a painting that was despicable enough so that no one would hang it - everybody was hanging everything,'' Lichtenstein told ARTnews in 1963. ``The one thing everyone hated was commercial art; apparently they didn't hate that enough either.'' Over the years he did paintings of mirrors, of brush strokes Brush Strokes was an Esmonde and Larbey sitcom set in South London and depicting the (mostly) amorous adventures of a good-looking, wisecracking house painter, Jacko (Karl Howman). , of interiors, reinterpretations of works by Picasso, Mondrian, Leger, Monet and Cezanne. His later work quoted his own early pictures. ``Stylistically, my work is devoid of emotional content. And it's what I want,'' he said. In 1949 he married Isabel Wilson and they had two sons, David and Mitchell. They divorced in 1965 and three years later he married Dorothy Herzka, who ran an art gallery at the time. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Roy Lichtenstein Inspired by commercial art |
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