Roy Lichtenstein:  A Look at the Artist’s Aesthetic beyond the Superficial Pop Label, with Carol Salus, Professor Emerita of art history at Kent State University 

Roy Lichtenstein was one of the most influential and innovative artists of the second half of the twentieth century. He was a 1995 recipient of the National Medal of Arts and Humanities, the nation’s highest cultural award.  He was preeminently identified with Pop Art, a movement Lichtenstein helped originate, and his first fully achieved paintings, rendered in a style mimicking the crude printing processes of newspaper reproduction, were based on imagery from comic strips and advertisements.