Roy Lichtenstein in artist quotes on Pop art, comics & strips - free resource, American art history

Roy Lichtenstein in quotes - the artist on Pop Art in America and on his use of comics & strips for creating his art - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in American art history

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In his artist quotes Roy Lichtenstein describes his use of comics and strips, to create Pop Art prints and paintings. He gives also critical comments; mainly about the artistic attitude of the former American Abstract Expressionist artists in the U.S…

Lichtenstein became famous as artist in the United States for his use of mainstream comics, daily advertisements and popular strips to create his paintings and prints. This was his characteristic way of creation: using the visual American daily-life stuff for his Pop Art.
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Some selected quotes of American artist Roy Lichtenstein - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Everybody has called Pop Art ‘American’ painting, but it’s actually industrial painting. America was hit by industrialism and capitalism harder and sooner and its values see more askew… .I think the meaning of my work is that it’s industrial; it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, so it won’t be American; it will be universal.’ - quote from: ‘What is Pop Art?’, interviews with eight American painters’, G. R. Swenson, ‘Art News 67’, 1963

• ’Well, it (Pop Art) is an involvement with what I think to be the most brazen and threatening characteristics of our culture, things we hate, but which are also powerful in their impingement on us… …Pop Art looks out into the world; it appears to accept its environment, which is not good or bad, but different’. - Lichtenstein’s quote from ‘What is Pop Art?’, 1963

• ’I think my work is different from comic strips - but I wouldn’t call it transformation; I don’t think that whatever is meant by it is important to art.’ - quote of Lichtenstein, from an interview with Coplan, 1972
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  selection of free art-resources on American artist Roy Lichtenstein:

  • biographical notes on Roy Lichtenstein, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Lichtenstein, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein
  • images of the painting art of Roy Lichtenstein, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Roy Lichtenstein
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]