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Roy Lichtenstein
1962
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One of the best-known American artists, Roy Lichtenstein created some of the most recognizable images of the pop-art movement. His comic-strip-inspired paintings appropriated elements of popular culture, repositioning them in the context of high art as a rebuke to prevailing abstract expressionist aesthetics. Lichtenstein, born and raised in New York, taught at the State University of New York at Oswego and at Rutgers University during the late 1950s and early 1960s, thereafter dedicating himself entirely to making art. Lichtenstein found commercial success throughout his long and prolific career, and his work continues to be widely collected and exhibited in the United States and abroad.
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