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To whoever is reading this my name is Cierra and you should remember this name and should get to know me!. I am loud. Really loud! My birthday is February 14th Valentine's Day! I am talkative, loud, outgoing, lazy and funny. I GET IRKED REAL EASILY! I love my friends and school but the work or teachers just the fun i have. I can draw a little but am not the best! I LOVE FACEBOOK! I came from J.R Masterman and now go here. Maurice is a "LAME" and should stop playing with me! Lol:)

My artist name is //Roy Lichtenstein.// He was known for pop art and was a prominent pop artist. His paintings were abig hit in the 1960's and were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery which was in New York City. Him and several others became a leading figure inthe new art movement. He produced hard-edged, precised compositions and did not call it "American" painting but industrial painting.

Lichtenstein was born in October 27th, 1923 and died September 29th, 1997. He was born in Manhattan into an upper-middle class New York City family. There, he attended public school until the age of 12 then enrolled at Manhattan's Franklin School for Boys where he stayed for the remainder of his school days. Although he is a well known artist he did not learn art in school because they did not teach that.

He first became interested in art and design as a hobby. He wasmostly an avid jazz fan who often attended concerts at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. There he would draw portraits of the musicians playing their instruments. Once he started drawing, he enrolled in summer classes at the Art Students League of New York where he worked under the tutelage of Reginald Marsh. He soon left and went to study at the Ohio State University becausetheyoffered studio courses and a degree in fine arts. He briefly took a break from art and served in World War II between 1943-1946.

He became so well known becausehestarted teaching at colleges. Hebegan teaching in upstate New York at theState University of New York at Oswego in 1958 but the winters were affecting his wife so he went to Rutgers University where he was heavily influenced by a teacher there named Allan Kaprow. This helped him reignite his interest inProto-pop imagery. In 1961 he began his first pop paintings using cartoon images and techniques derived from the appearance of commercial printing.

He soon began to find fame. Not just in America but worldwide. He later on moved back to New York tobe at the center of the art scene and resigned from Rutgers University to focus on his painting. He had pieces in DC Comics and museums. He believed inhimself and his paintings and tried to be very different and creative when creating or painting something.