Dorothy herzka liechtenstein biography sample
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Dorothy Lichtenstein (1939–2024)
Philanthropist Dorothy Lichtenstein, a cofounder and the president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, died July 4 at her home in Southampton, New York, of complications from congenital heart disease. She was eighty-four. In addition to her work with the foundation honoring her late Pop artist husband, Lichtenstein for twenty-four years served on the board of the Studio in a School, which was founded by fellow philanthropist Agnes Gund to provide New York City youth with professional arts education; she was a founding vice chair of the affiliated Studio Institute, which was created in 2016 to expand the school’s philanthropic mission beyond New York. As well, she sat on the board of Southampton’s Parrish Art Museum, which she joined in 2000, and on that of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation since 2011. “Dorothy was a powerful model of how to be in the world,” wrote her family in an obituary. “She was kind and deep
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Southampton's 20th Century Influencers: Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art Groundbreaker
Updated: Sep 1, 2022
In 1952, writing in ARTnews, Fairfield Porter hails the 29-year-old Roy Lichtenstein as “a young newcomer” to the art world though, at the time, Abstract Expressionism reigns supreme as a style. With its emphasis on the flow of thick paint in a spontaneous gesture originating in the artist’s soul and moving through the hand to the brush and the canvas, an Abstract Expressionist painting is viewed as a revelation of the creator’s authentic identity.
So it is with remarkable prescience that Porter welcomes Lichtenstein precisely for the way he (quote) “spreads one flat color next to another and lets it alone. It always works,” adds Porter, “he is a natural.” (end quote) It will be another two years before the term Pop Art will gain currency and another decade before Lichtenstein, nearly 40, will be recognized as a leading proponent of Pop, v
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Roy Lichtenstein
American pop artist (1923–1997)
Roy Fox Lichtenstein[2] (; October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. He rose to prominence in the 1960s through pieces which were inspired by popular advertising and the comic book style. Much of his work explores the relationship between fine art, advertising, and consumerism.
Whaam!, Drowning Girl, and Look Mickey proved to be Lichtenstein's most influential works.[3] His most expensive del av helhet is Masterpiece, which was sold for $165 million in 2017.[4]
Lichtenstein's paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City, which represented him from 1961 onwards. His artwork was considered to be "disruptive".[5] Lichtenstein described pop art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".[6]
Early years
[edit]Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923, into an upper middle classGerman-Jewish family in