Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist known for his paintings that incorporated cartoon images. One of the first subjects he painted after his breakthrough in pop art was landscapes. The document discusses key elements of landscape art including depicting the relative sizes of objects based on their distance, the use of overlapping shapes, varying colors and clarity based on an object's position in the foreground, middleground or background, the inclusion of a horizon line, and how Lichtenstein found inspiration for his landscapes from cartoon backgrounds rather than nature itself.

1. Roy Lichtenstein
Landscapes
American Pop Artist
1923-1997

2. Roy first became
successful with his
pop art paintings
that used cartoon
images.

3. This is one of his many landscapes.

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

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

6. How are they alike?
How are they different?

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

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

9. In a landscape
painting, things
will overlap.
Why are some
trees larger and
in front of
smaller trees?

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

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

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

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

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