Roy Lichtenstein Biography Illustrator, Painter (1923–1997) QUICK FACTS NAME Roy Lichtenstein OCCUPATION Illustrator, Painter BIRTH DATE October 27, 1923 DEATH DATE September 29, 1997 EDUCATION Parsons School of Design, The Ohio State University, Art Students League, Franklin School for Boys (now Dwight School) PLACE OF BIRTH New York, New York PLACE OF DEATH New York, New York AKA Roy Lichtenstein FULL NAME Roy Fox Lichtenstein SYNOPSIS EARLY YEARS COMMERCIAL SUCCESS AND POP ART LATER CAREER PERSONAL LIFE AND DEATH CITE THIS PAGE Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist best known for his boldly-colored parodies of comic strips and advertisements. IN THESE GROUPS FAMOUS SCORPIOS FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN IN NEW YORK FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN IN UNITED STATES FAMOUS PEOPLE BORN ON OCTOBER 27 Show All Groups 1 of 3 « » QUOTES “When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically, to raise the question: Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?” —Roy Lichtenstein FROM SITES WE LOVE A Woman Removes Her Makeup On Camera To Reveal Her Truth. A Woman Removes Her Makeup On Camera To Reveal Her Truth. Upworthy A Woman Attached Her Infant to Her Wedding Dress and Dragged A Woman Attached Her Infant to Her Wedding Dress and Dragged Lifetime Moms Like Robert De Niro, I Too Grew Up With a Gay Dad…Except Like Robert De Niro, I Too Grew Up With a Gay Dad…Except Lifetime Moms Halle Berry Ordered to Pay $16,000 a Month in Child Support Halle Berry Ordered to Pay $16,000 a Month in Child Support Lifetime Moms Her Mom Wanted Her To Wear A Dress To Prom. Here Her Mom Wanted Her To Wear A Dress To Prom.
[pic] Terry Harrison I have always loved painting and drawing, but when I was a lad at school in Norfolk, Art was never considered a career subject and certainly not encouraged, but in 1965 my family moved to Farnborough, and my new art teacher was brilliant, at age 15 I passed both O-Level and A-Level Art, then went on to Farnham Art School. Travels all over the place painting landscapes in Water Colour TOM FONG |Tom Fong, Artist-Instructor, a native Californian, graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Design. | |He paints bold, spontaneous, and direct. His watercolors have been juried into National Exhibitions. Tom's work has been
Self-portraits have been a method of self exploration used by many artists since before the invention of the mirror. An artist uses self-portraits to transcend the barrier of time and be immortalized in history. Norman Rockwell, one of the greatest American painter and illustrator, created a famous piece called Triple Self-Portrait, which can be interpreted as timeless; an attempt of the creator to be eternal. Norman Rockwell was born in New York City in 1894. Since a little kid he knew that he wanted to be an artist, so he left high school to attend the Arts Student League, where he learned the technical skills on which he applied all through his career.
Oscar-Claude Monet- “San Giorgio Maggire at Dusk” My artist is Oscar-Claude Monet and he was born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. When Monet started painting, he was studying at, Le Havre, with making charcoal paintings at the age of eleven. He would also sell his charcoal paintings in local areas. During Monet’s high school years, his art teacher was Jacques-Francois Ochard. Later on he met, Eugene Boudin.
Keith Haring was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He developed a love for drawing at a very early age, learning his basic cartooning skills from his father and the popular culture around him, such as Dr. Seuss and Walt Disney. Haring moved to New York City and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts (SVA). In New York, Haring found an art community that inspired him to begin participating in exhibitions and performances. As a student Haring experimented with various media until he found a highly effective medium that allowed him to communicate with the wider audience he desired.
Though many ridiculed him, Paul Gauguin, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec admired his work. Rousseau was well liked by other artists, whom he invited to his soirées, but he was often made the object of practical jokes. In 1908 he was given a party by Pablo Picasso, whom he came to consider as one of the two greatest living painters, the other Ferguson 2 being himself. Rousseau died in Paris on Sept. 2, 1910, and Constantin Brancusi chiseled on his tombstone a eulogy composed by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!)
As Harriet and Sarah Tilt, Harriet’s friend and famous art critic, look through an exhibition at the Cumberland and Maitland Art Gallery, they come across a painting by Fritz Dangerfield’s who, in his career, painted the same painting over and over again. Sarah considers him a “mad artist” (115) “He painted the same picture over and over again but he would not be parted from the canvases, which he kept in his bedroom until his death.” (116) This painting was his only source of influence, was the only ‘word’ in his verbal universe, so it was the only idea he could recycle and reuse in a new context. One interaction Harriet and Sarah make, after Sarah explains this painting to Harriet explains
As a realist painter, he only painted objects that he saw which “produced in him the ability to paint his subjects in such a way that they seem to be alive” (Velazquezgallery). Not only that, he had something that other artists did not have -determination, willpower and fortitude. Velazquez’s skills, talent, and paintings led him to be known as Spain’s greatest baroque artist. Born in Seville, Velazquez’s parents were of inferior nobility. Once he turned twelve years of age, he began an apprenticeship which lasted five years.
Kahlo accompanied her father to local parks, painting her surroundings in watercolor and sharing in her father’s “curiosity about, and passion for, all manifestations of nature” (Herrera 18). Guillermo had also taught Kahlo to retouch, color, and develop photographs. After her father’s death, Kahlo would compare his photographs to her paintings. Whereas he took photographs of his actual reality, she painted the reality in her head. At the age of six, Kahlo fell ill with a bout of poliomyelitis, or polio.
Henry Moore Henry Moore was born july 30, 1898, in Castleford, Yorkshire. He had 7 sibling, he was the 7th of 8. His father was a miner but he wanted better for his kids so he got them an education at a local school. Moore was a teenager when he developed his interest also his talent in art. At the young age of 18 he was called to the army.