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Roy Lichtenstein Landscapes American Pop Artist 1923-1997
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Roy Lichtenstein Landscapes

American Pop Artist1923-1997

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Roy first became successful with his

pop art paintings that used cartoon

images.

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This is one of his many landscapes.

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Landscapes were one of the first subjects that Lichtenstein painted after his comic-inspired breakthrough.

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Here is a landscape from 100 years earlier; The Last of the Mohicans by Thomas Cole (1826)

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How are they alike? How are they different?

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Landscape art is the illustration of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests.

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In landscape paintings, things that are further away are smaller, while things that are closer to us are larger.

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In a landscape painting, things

will overlap.

Why are some trees larger and

in front of smaller trees?

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Things that are close to us are brighter in color while things in the background become grayer and less clear.

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These are the three main spaces you will see in a landscape; Foreground, Middleground and Background.

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The horizon line separates the earth from the sky. Can you point out the horizon line?

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Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather is often an element of the composition.

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Roy found his ideas for landscapes not from nature itself, but from the backgrounds of cartoons.

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