Dot dot dot
An early work derived from comic strips, this features Lichtenstein’s recreation of the mass media’s Ben-Day dots printing process. It would become one of the most recognisable 20th-century styles.
Bad romance
The subject is as much the Girls’ Romances comic the image came from as the mass production of images themselves.
Close encounter
The artist has zoomed in on his source material, upping the drama of the man’s predatory glance and the woman’s hard gaze.
American gods
Blown up to huge proportions and realised smoothly by the artist’s invisible hand, Lichtenstein’s beaus vibrate with the energy of the confident, capitalist postwar US.
Keep cool
One of the frontrunners of US 1960s pop art, Lichtenstein’s approach was the cool-headed antidote to the previous generation’s heated way with paint.
Part of Roy Lichtenstein in Focus, Tate Liverpool, 22 September to 17 June
