Sharing My Knowledge about Roy Lichtenstein

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about Roy Lichtenstein. Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist in the 1950’s. For our learning we had to find six or more facts about him. I found eight facts about Roy from the texts we had to scan. I think I did well but I can probably do better next time. I really enjoyed finding facts about Roy because I didn't know who he was until this week and I learnt new things. I got my facts about Roy Lichtenstein from Facts #1 and Facts #2. In art, I predict that we might use Ben Day Dots and a few colors to make it look like Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings. Did you know who Roy Lichtenstein was?

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Here are my facts about Roy Lichtenstein:

1. Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York in 1923. 

2. Roy Lichtenstein became famous for his bright and bold comic strip cartoons and his paintings of everyday objects.

3. Roy Lichtenstein is mostly known for being a painter, he also made different kinds of paintings such as sculptures, murals, ceramics and prints.
4. He was sometimes accused of copying comics exactly, but he said he made changes to the paintings right up to the tiniest detail of the individual dots.

5. He was also criticized for using basic painting techniques.

6. Roy Lichtenstein used this dotty tengique called ‘Ben Day Dots’ to make the colour and texture like a comic book.

7. One of Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings sold for more than 50 million dollars back in 2013.

8. Roy Lichtenstein chose colors carefully to imitate the four colors of printers inks (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black - Known as CMYK)