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Stamp by Roy Lichtenstein
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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A tribute to Roy Lichtenstein
A la suite de complications de santé dues à une pneumonie, Roy Lichtenstein, figure incontournable du Pop Art américain, meurt le 29 septembre 1997 au New York University Medical Center de Mahattan à New York ; il avait 73 ans. Conformément à ses dernières volontés, son corps sera incinéré et ses cendres remises à sa famille. En son hommage, ce coquelicot.
"Mon style est aussi artificiel que possible." - Roy Lichtenstein
"le Pop art n'est pas une peinture américaine, mais une peinture industrielle." - Roy Lichtenstein
"Ce qui marque le pop, c'est avant tout l'usage qu'il fait de ce qui est méprisé et on insiste sur les moyens les plus pratiques, les moins esthétiques, les plus beuglants des aspects de la publicité." - Roy Lichtenstein
"L'art ne transforme pas. Il formule." - Roy Lichtenstein
"Les clichés sont des modèles simples frappants, mémorables et faciles à communiquer. Ils peuvent signifier l'essentiel d'une idée. Ils ont la possibilité de devenir monumentaux." - Roy Lichtenstein
"Je pense que mon travail est différent de la bande dessinée, mais je n'appellerais pas ça une « transformation » ; quoi qu'il signifie, je ne pense pas que ce soit important pour l'art." - Roy Lichtenstein
Notes of biography
Roy Lichtenstein is born in Pittsburg (USA) in 1923 and comes from a wealthy family of New Yorker upper class. It is in his teens during his spare time that he becomes interested in art and design. In 1939, after his final year of high school, the young man follows summer classes at the Art Students League of New York. During his schooling, Lichtenstein develops a passion for jazz music. In 1942, Lichtenstein follows the course of Professor HL Sherman, "Drawing by the gaze", where students setting in darkness, must draw objects installed in the middle of the room, objects illuminated one split second by the flash of a camera; theories of Sherman on the "orderly perception”, emphasizing the visual experience which are fundamental in the work of Lichtenstein.
In 1947, Lichtenstein successfully completes his high school and left New York, he enrolls at the State University of Ohio where he graduates in fine arts in 1949. During this period, he paints portraits and still life, influenced by Picasso and Braque; he also follows a course in sculpture. He interrupts his studies during the Second World War and enrolls in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946. He keeps a sketchbook, drawing landscapes and portraits of soldiers. After the war he resumes his studies in Ohio and graduates; Lichtenstein is hired as a teacher. His first exhibition is held in Canada in 1951.
He moves to Cleveland in 1951, where he lives during six years while traveling frequently to New York. Between two periods of artistic production he has varied jobs. At that time, his work oscillates between Cubism and Expressionism. Beginning in 1952, Liechtenstein joins the plethora of artists of John Heller Gallery in New York and presents ironic and post-Cubist interpretations of famous nineteenth century American paintings; that is the pre-pop period.
In 1957 he moves to New York. Roy Lichtenstein begins teaching at the State University of New York in 1958 (at Oswego, in upstate New York). In 1960 he begins teaching at Rutgers University, where Allan Kaprow who also teaches there heavily influences him. During his first year at Rutgers, Lichtenstein's work is abstract. In this environment, in 1961, he produces his first pop charts, with pictures of cartoons with techniques based on advertising works. In 1961, Leo Castelli begins to exhibit Lichtenstein’s works in his gallery in New York there Lichtenstein receives his first solo exhibition in 1962. That same year the pop works of Lichtenstein appear in six major U.S. exhibitions. He becomes one of the most important artists of the American Pop Art movement.
Advertising and comics (comic books), popular imagery of that time heavily inspire his work. Lichtenstein uses a frame, and is based, for inspiration, on stereotypes of hygiene or food. The artist loves the dish, and fall in advertising convention. In the early 1990s, the artist and his family take their disposition to create a private foundation to facilitate public access to his art and the art of his time.
Victim of pneumonia, Lichtenstein dies in 1997 in Manhattan (New York).
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The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.

Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
* « Drawings and prints », D. Waldman, P. Bianchi book, Ed. Chelsea House Publishers, 1969Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Lichtenstein », Jack Cowart, Ed. Hudson Hills Press, 1981
- « Special R. Lichtenstein », in Artstudio n°20, Paris, collectif, Printemps 1991
- « Roy Lichtenstein », Diane Waldman, Ed. Abrams, New York, 1994
- « Roy Lichtenstein », Diane Waldman, cat., Ed. Guggenheim Museum, 1993
- « L’art de Roy Lichtenstein », B. Aldelman et C. Tomkins, Ed. Altinéa, 1994
- « Evolution, R. Lichtenstein », M. Restellini, Ed. Pinacothèque de Paris, 2007
- « Roy Lichtenstein Sculptor », C. Bell et I. Wallace, Ed. Skira, 2013
- « R. Lichtenstein - A retrospective », S. Wagstaff, J. Rondeau, Yale University Pr., 2012
- « Roy Lichtenstein au Centre Pompidou », coll., cat., Ed. Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2013
- « Lichtenstein », Janis Hendrickson, coll. Basic Art, Ed. Taschen, 2016
To read from the artist :
- « Aventure de l’art moderne », vidéo n°10/13 de la série, C. Vilardebo, FR3, 198
- « Ce que je crée, c'est de la forme - Entretiens 1963-1997 », coll., Ed. C. Pompidou, 2013
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Stamp by Roy Lichtenstein
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsWatch
A tribute to Roy Lichtenstein
A la suite de complications de santé dues à une pneumonie, Roy Lichtenstein, figure incontournable du Pop Art américain, meurt le 29 septembre 1997 au New York University Medical Center de Mahattan à New York ; il avait 73 ans. Conformément à ses dernières volontés, son corps sera incinéré et ses cendres remises à sa famille. En son hommage, ce coquelicot.
"Mon style est aussi artificiel que possible." - Roy Lichtenstein
"le Pop art n'est pas une peinture américaine, mais une peinture industrielle." - Roy Lichtenstein
"Ce qui marque le pop, c'est avant tout l'usage qu'il fait de ce qui est méprisé et on insiste sur les moyens les plus pratiques, les moins esthétiques, les plus beuglants des aspects de la publicité." - Roy Lichtenstein
"L'art ne transforme pas. Il formule." - Roy Lichtenstein
"Les clichés sont des modèles simples frappants, mémorables et faciles à communiquer. Ils peuvent signifier l'essentiel d'une idée. Ils ont la possibilité de devenir monumentaux." - Roy Lichtenstein
"Je pense que mon travail est différent de la bande dessinée, mais je n'appellerais pas ça une « transformation » ; quoi qu'il signifie, je ne pense pas que ce soit important pour l'art." - Roy Lichtenstein
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