Part B

Choose and research a major artists work from the 1960s onwards.

My Chosen artist is Roy Lichtenstein and the art work I am going to develop my research on is "Drowning Girl" also know as "secret hearts or I don't care! I'd rather sink"

Reason For choosing Lichtenstein:

My reason for choosing to Roy is that I did do some research development on him when I was at school, he and his work caught my attention for a pop artist, Most of his work look like it had a untold story line not separately but as a whole when he kept producing new works they look as if they could be made in to a comic book series, I never really got the chance to finish my research and I thought that this would be a good advantage to take a hold of for this project, I find that the work that catches my attention the most is the Drowning girl, Not really much reason it is pretty explanatory but it is told that it is one of his most famous works that he developed.

A little bit about the Artist:

Bron: October 27th, 1923
Name: Roy Fox Lichtenstein
Died: September 29th, 1997 (Aged 73)
Nationality: America
Education: Ohio State University
Known For: Painting, Sculpture
Movement: Pop art

Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist, He became a leading figure in the new art movement.
His work was the basic premise of pop art through parody, Favouring the comic strip as his main inspiration, He produced hard edge precise compositions, his work was influenced by popular advertising and comic book style.

Chosen work:

"Drowning Girl"

Year: 1963
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
Type: Pop Art, Oil Synthetic polymer paint on canvas.
Dimensions: 171.6cm x 169.5cm














What was happening at this time, Background:

During the late 1950s and early 1960s a number of american painters began to adapt the imagery and motifs of comic strips. Lichtenstein made drawings of comic strip characters in 1958. As Andy Warhol was one of the many artists that started the same time as Lichtenstein, Andy's earliest paintings styled in the early 1960s although Warhol had produced silkscreens of comic strips and of other pop art subject, he supposedly relegated himself to Campbells Soup Cans as a subject at the time to avoid competing with the more finished style of comics by Lichtenstein. Andy was certain that he was going to produce something that was personal and just as powerful as Lichtenstein but different enough so it didn't look to similar.

"Drawing Girl depicted the advancement of Lichtenstein's cartoon work, which represented his 1961 departure from his abstract expressionism period, from animated cartoons to more serious themes such as romance and wartime armed forces. Lichtenstein said that, at the time, "I was very excited about, and very interested in, the highly emotional content yet detached impersonal handling of love, hate, war, etc., in these cartoon images." Lichtenstein parodied four Picasso's between 1962 and 1963. Picasso's depictions of weeping woman may have influenced Lichtenstein to produce portrayal of vulnerable teary-eyed women, such as the subjects of hopeless and Drowning Girl. Another possible influence on his distressed woman in the early- to mid- 1960s was that his first marriage was dissolving at the time. Lichtenstein's firsts marriage to Isabel Wilson, which resulted in two sons, lasted from 1949 to 1965; the couple separated in 1963."