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Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Roy Lichtenstein
The Life of Roy Lichtenstein Manhattan, New York City, October 27, 1923. Roy Lichtenstein enters the world as the son of Milton and Beatrice. The urban energy of the metropolis provides the backdrop for a life that will eventually challenge the boundaries of fine art. He grows up in an upper-middle-class Jewish family, absorbing the cultural rhythms of the city through museums and jazz music. The trajectory of his career shifts during
the mid-twentieth century. He emerges as a leading figure of the Pop Art movement, a period defined by a radical departure from the heavy, emotional brushwork of Abstract Expressionism. Instead of looking inward, he looks outward at the glossy, mechanical surfaces of American mass culture. He finds his subject matter in the most overlooked corners of daily life: the dramatic panels of comic books and the stark, repetitive patterns of…