Roy Lichtenstein 

Roy Lichtenstein’s work was first impacted by comic books and cartoons; this is where his ideas come from. His main artworks were influenced by comic strips.

He turned commercial images and fine art into images which looked like comic books and advertisements and turning them into paintings whilst also adding type too. Lichtenstein used colour as if it was printing ink. He included little tiny dots so that all his paintings and images looked like they were in the style of cartoons. No one at this time created art like Roy Lichtenstein and he was quoted as “The worst Artist in America” by the life magazine. Although he was known as the worst artist at this time it was because he was so beyond the realm of fine art that the art critics were all outraged in his works.

Lichtenstein's best-known work from this period is "Whaam!," which he painted in 1963, using a comic book panel from a 1962 issue of DC Comics' All-American Men of War as his inspiration. Other works of the 1960s featured cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck and advertisements for food and household products. He created a large-scale mural of a laughing young woman (adapted from an image in a comic book) for the New York State Pavilion of the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.