Roy
Lichtenstein was the master of the stereotype, and the most sophisticated of
the major Pop artists in terms of his analysis of visual convention and his
ironic exploitation of past styles. The work for which he is now known was the
product of a long apprenticeship.
He was born in New York City in October 1923. His parents were middle-class
and he described himself as having had a quiet and uneventful childhood. Though
art was not taught as part of the curriculum at his high school, in his junior
year he started to draw and paint as a hobby.
