Roy Lichtenstein was a hugely famous American pop artist. Lichtenstein became a huge figure in the new art movement along with other famous artists including Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. His art generally favoured the comic strip as his main inspiration. Roy produced hard-edged and precise artwork with attention to detail but they were generally always done in a tongue-in-cheek, humorous way.
'Whaam!', 'Drowning girl' and 'Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too... But..' are all arguably some of his most famous art works.
Lichtenstein was born in New York city in 1923, into a middle-classed Jewish family. He left New York to attend Ohio State University. But his studies were interrupted when he had to do a 3 year stint in the American army during World War 2. In the 1960's, he started teaching at Rutgers University
