Task 2: Make a visual research page on Roy Lichtenstein

Your research page should include: Examples

• A decorative title
• Images of the artist’s work
• Artist copy – (This was task 1)
• 5 facts about the artist (minimum)
• Key words to describe the main visual
Y8 Pop Art Project

features of the artist’s work

• Your OWN OPINION of the artist’s work
Present your work in a decorative way that
reflects the style of Lichtenstein‘s work.

• Use the knowledge organiser or do some

research online about Lichtenstein- there will be
lots of videos you can watch!
• https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/roy-lichtenstein-1508/roy-
lichtenstein-retrospective
• https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/roy-lichtenstein-1508/roy-
lichtenstein-diagram-artist
• Collect some pictures.
• Decide on something positive you feel you can
say about his work.
• Consider how best to present your work digitally
or hand-made?

Stretch Challenge: Write a few short sentences to explain ‘Pop Art’ and who the main artists
involved in the movement were. Print/draw your favourite Pop Art image and explain why
you chose it. Add this to your Lichtenstein research page.
Roy Lichtenstein
Facts:
• Roy Lichtenstein, American painter,
sculptor, and printmaker, startled the art
world in 1962 by exhibiting paintings based
on comic book cartoons
• Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City
on October 27, 1923
• Lichtenstein was best known for his paintings
based on comic strips, with their themes of
passion, romance, science fiction, violence,
and war. In these paintings, Lichtenstein
uses the commercial art methods:
projectors magnify spray-gun stencils,
creating dots to make the pictures look like
newspaper cartoons seen through a
magnifying glass.
• In the 1980s and 1990s, Lichtenstein began
to mix and match styles, often augmenting
his cartoony images with ideas derived from
abstract expressionism. Often his works
relied on optical tricks or illusions, drawing
his viewers into a debate over the nature of
"reality." Always the works were marked by
Lichtenstein's trademark sense of humour
Key Features of Artwork:
Primary colours, comic book style, flat
colours, ben day dots, lines, bold, thick
outlines, stereotypical characters,
onomatopoeia, speech bubbles, starbursts.

Ben Day Dots: A commercial printing technique using small dots of color,
named after 19th-century illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry Day. Ben-
Day dots were used in color comic books in the 1950s and ’60s to create
effects of shading and secondary colors inexpensively. American Pop
artist Roy Lichtenstein (1993-1997) used stencils to imitate the look of Ben-
Day dots in his comic-inspired paintings.

Quotes “Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.” “I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.”
“I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.”