- Born
- Died
- Birth nameRoy Fox Lichtenstein
- Height5′ 9¼″ (1.76 m)
- Roy Lichtenstein was born on October 27, 1923 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Spider-Man Unlimited (2014), Spider-Man & Venom: Maximum Carnage (1994) and The Death and Return of Superman (1994). He was married to Dorothy Herzka and Isabel Wilson. He died on September 29, 1997 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpousesDorothy Herzka(November 1, 1968 - September 29, 1997) (his death)Isabel Wilson(June 12, 1949 - March 23, 1967) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- Painter who pioneered the 'pop art' movement.
- Designed the Dreamworks Records logo as a favor to his friends, David Geffen and Mo Ostin.
- Biography in: "American National Biography." Supplement 1, pp. 360-361 New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Awarded the USA's National Medal of the Arts in 1995 by the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC.
- He was a painter and a sculptor.
- You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
- I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
- In America the biggest is the best.
- Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
- I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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