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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...
...undercurrent of Warhol's. It was its own logo. It fairly crackled with assertion and impersonality, both at once. Those Benday dots, that studied neutrality of surface, that not-so-simple love of a vernacular (romance and action comics of the '50s) that was already receding into nostalgia when Lichtenstein took it up in the '60s--whom else could it have belonged...
...Lichtenstein's cachet will continue to grow, even after the artist's death Monday (TIME Daily...
...pioneer Roy Lichtenstein dies at 73 (TIME Daily...