Roy Fox Lichtenstein Research Paper

Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born in New York City to a German-Jewish family. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his father Milton, a real-estate broker, his mother Beatrice, a homemaker, and his younger sister Renee. Roy Lichtenstein was one of the first American Pop artists to reach well-known notoriety, and he became a lightning rod for condemnation of the society. His early work alternated widely in style and topic matter, and displayed significant empathetic of modernist painting. Lichtenstein would often maintain that he was as concerned in the intellectual qualities of his descriptions as he was in their subject material. As a boy growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Lichtenstein had a hunger for both science and comic …show more content…
He created a large-scale mural of a laughing young woman for the New York State Pavilion of the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. After his completion from the Franklin School for Boys in Manhattan in 1940, Lichtenstein joined The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. His college studies were interjected in 1943, when he was drafted and sent to Europe for World War II. After his wartime service, Lichtenstein returned to Ohio State in 1946 to finish his undergraduate degree and master's degree both in fine arts. He temporarily taught at Ohio State before moving to Cleveland and working as a window display designer for a department store, an industrial designer and a commercial art instructor. In the late 1940s, Lichtenstein demonstrated his art in galleries nationwide, including in Cleveland and New York City. Lichtenstein was married twice. He and his first wife, Isabel, whom he married in 1949 and divorced in 1967, had two sons, David and Mitchell. He married Dorothy Herzka in 1968. Lichtenstein died of difficulties from pneumonia on September 29, 1997, at the New York University Medical Center in