The Artist I Chose is...

Dear Mr. Ryan Gallagher:

The artist I chose to research is a contemporary artist known as Roy Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein was born in New York in 1923. He is known for being one of the best of the pop art movement. Lichtenstein’s art interests me, because it is very unique and his art reminds me of comic book characters in a way. A couple of my favorite pieces of art by Lichtenstein are Blam and In the Car. The art Blam really interests me, because I’m into art work that was done with oil painting, because my grandfather used to paint the same way. The colors Lichtenstein used in the painting are really colorful and are easy to see. They remind me of colors most seen in comic books. The same goes with the painting In the Car, because it has unique colors and gives me the feeling as reading a comic book. It also gives me the idea that Lichtenstein may have been into woman and being a spy, because he draws many blonde woman and the scene seems sort of old school spy work.

My initial research led me to find out that Lichtenstein grew up in New York, which isn’t too far from here. Also, he wasn’t really influenced at a young age by art, and began making art at a young age. He went to college and began teaching as well in his hometown of New York. My most favorite thing about Lichtenstein is his unique comic book style paintings.

There are many places in which I can find information on my artist Lichtenstein. Wikipedia.org is a very good reference, along with google.com and Lichtensteinfoundation.org. A couple of other places I can find information about Lichtenstein can definitely be the local library, or a book store. Some more websites where I can find information on my artist are artchive.com, artcyclopedia.com, artelino.com, rogallery.com is good for paintings by Lichtenstein, and finally there is answers.com in which I can find valuable information.

My ideas for a thesis vary, because I haven’t really decided yet. Some ideas I have include a thesis about Lichtenstein’s unique comic book style and why he chose to do that. Another thesis could include writing on the unique colors and Lichtenstein’s unique way of drawing woman as blonde most of the time. Those are just a few I can think of, but there are many more ideas I can come up with.

Sincerely,


Chad Ortiz