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Master of dots and stereotypes

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What? Drowning Girl

Who? Roy Lichtenstein

When? 1963

Where? New York City

Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein is most famous for his artworks which look like sections of comic strips.

In these works, he uses comic book lettering, speech bubbles and Ben Day dots - the small dots used in modern printing techniques - to add colour to an image.

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