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Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
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Roy Lichtenstein did his first "comic-strip" painting when his son asked him to copy a bubble-gum wrapper. He found himself interested in the simple shapes, bold outlines and flat, bright colors.

He even used BENDAY dots to make his works look more like comic strips.

key2.gif (90 bytes) A comic strip is a very small picture; Liechtenstein is a very small country.   Lichtenstein painted with dots; Liechtenstein is a dot on the map.