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Roy Lichtenstein American painter, sculptor, and print maker, startled the art world in 1962 by exhibiting paintings based on comic book cartoons. From 1951 to about 1957 Lichtenstein's paintings dealt with themes of the American West, cowboys, Native Americans, and the like in a style similar to that of modern European painters. Next he began hiding images of comic strip figures (such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Bugs Bunny) in his paintings. By 1961 he had created the images for which he became known.

Lichtenstein was best known for his paintings based on comic strips, with their thems of passion, romance, science fiction, violence, and war. In these paintings, Lichtenstein uses the commercial art methods; projectors magnify spray-gun stencils, creating dots to make the pictures look like newspaper cartoons seen through a magnifying glass. In the late 1960s he turned to design elements and the commercial art of the 1930s, as if to explore the history of pop art. In 1966 his work was included in the Venice (Italy) Biennale art show. In 1969 New York's Guggenheim Museum gave a large exhibition of his work.