1960's The Arts | Crying Girl

Painting

By: Roy Lichtenstein

Date: 1964

Source: Lichtenstein, Roy. Crying Girl. 1964. Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. Available online at http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/3352.htm (accessed January 7, 2003).

About the Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), a painter, sculptor, and printmaker, was born in New York City. His first art education took place at the Arts Student League in New York. He later earned a bachelor's degree and master of fine arts from Ohio State University. During the 1950s, the theme of much of his work was American history and the conquest of the Wild West. In the 1960s, he began creating pop art based on comics.

Introduction

In the 1950s and 1960s, pop art became an international movement in painting, sculpture, and printmaking, though the term itself originated in...