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Roy Lichtenstein

Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. He described pop art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting". Lichtenstein restricted his paint colours to imitate the four colours of printers inks. He also used Ben-Day dots; a system devised to increase the tonal range in commercial printing through a dot screen method. Lichtenstein didn't paint each and every dot by hand. Instead, he used various kinds of stencils with perforated dot patterns. He'd brush his paint across the top of the stencil, and the colors dropped through, as perfect circles. In doing so, he was elevating commercial images from comics and ads into art.
 
 
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