Word: lichtenstein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lichtenstein, who died at 73 last week of complications arising from pneumonia, was not quite the most famous of the American Pop artists. That honor belonged to Andy Warhol, who made it somewhat dubious. Lichtenstein was always lower-key as a person, reserved, wryly courteous and not a great believer in the virtues of publicity. He neither sought nor avoided the limelight...
Born in New York City in 1923, Lichtenstein served a stint in the Air Force during World War II--which must have laid the ground of his later comic-strip images of gung-ho pilots blasting their enemies from the sky--and then, after studying art at Ohio State University, moved back East. He was a slender, elegant man who, with his beaky nose and long gray hair pulled back in a ponytail, acquired in his later years an odd physical resemblance to Georgia O'Keeffe. He lived for his work, assiduously producing it on a near industrial scale--sculpture...
...Lichtenstein's cachet will continue to grow, even after the artist's death Monday (TIME Daily...
...pioneer Roy Lichtenstein dies at 73 (TIME Daily...
...Museum of Fine Arts. This year the esteemed institution ditched Winslow Homer and went pop. The season opened with the potpourri contemporary art show, "Face and Figure," a conglomeration of New England artists and world-renowned avant-garde figures. Souls were sold for a Herb Ritts exhibit and Roy Lichtenstein offered his take on Chinese landscape painting...