biography
pronunciation:
[likhtenstiyn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1923–97)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in New York City, USA. He studied at the Art Students' League, New York City (1939), and at Ohio State College, and taught at Ohio State, New York State, and Rutgers universities. From the early 1960s he produced many of the best-known images of American Pop Art, especially frames from comic books complete with speech balloons, enlarged onto canvases and painted in primary colours in a hard-edged style imitated from cheap printing techniques. The huge ‘Whaam’ (1963, Tate, London) is a typical example. |
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