What interests me is to paint the kind of anti-sensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward — neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Roy Lichtenstein was a 20th-century American pop artist. Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American artist. A leading figure of the Pop Art movement, Lichtenstein is best known for his large-scale paintings inspired by comic books, advertisements, and mass-produced imagery. Read more on Wikipedia →