Contemporary art enjoyed a new star when this American artist came along with comic strip inspired art that helped to lift the Pop Art movement to new levels.
The clear lines and reduced palette were characteristics of several artists in this movement and also make their work clear and concise from any distance.
Contemporary art such as this is well suited to display in modern homes, more so than traditional art which was never really intended for this purpose.
Roy Lichtenstein paintings also held captions that helped add depth to each scene that the artist created, helping to provide some small suggestion of conversation to add interest to the relationships found in these works.
The use of typography helped to offer more opportunities to Lichtenstein in his paintings and he often chose to reflect society's realities through simple comments made by these glamorous people.
Lichtenstein loosely termed his style as Industrial painting in an attempt to avoid major mainstream movements which he prefered to avoid in order to preserve his own creative independance as an artist.
However Lichtenstein wanted to portray his innovative style that drew heavily on 20th century cartoons and advertisements, most simply placed him within the contemporary umbrella group of Pop artists which was an art movement that really gained momentum over time.
Influences on Lichtenstein included Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Jasper Johns. The artist was known to have taken a interest in, and inspiration from art movements like Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Happenings. These contemporary art movements cover a wide range of styles from the bright and bold artwork of Vincent van Gogh and Henri Matisse, to the abstraction of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock and the innovation of Salvador Dali.
