In the mid 1960’s, a new art culture surfaced in Britain and America creating a challenge to the traditional fine artists and modernism of the sixties known as the Pop Art movement.
Unlike traditional paintings of landscapes or scenery, this new method of creating art was centered around using mass media produced imagery of popular items like soup cans and soft drinks, comic books, and Hollywood icons.
Although four major artists were considered responsible for introducing this new method of painting to the art world, two are considered as being the major inventors, known as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
Considered to be the greatest comic artist in the pop art movement, and second to Andy Warhol in pop art culture, Roy Lichtenstein (born