what influenced roy lichtenstein artwork?
Jasper Johns
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 The inspiration for the series was Charlton Comics ' Strange Suspense Stories 72 ( October 1964 ) by Dick Giordano which depicted an artist who was worn out emotionally after completing a painting . However , only the original directly references the comic strip . Although the Brushstrokes series had a brief timespan , the motif served as a theme in Lichtenstein 's works for the final 32 years of his career . 

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 Lichtenstein obtained legal validation that his work was original when Loran 's lawsuit was dismissed , clearing the way for artists to elaborate on images produced by others . 

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 In 1943 Lichtenstein left his study of painting and drawing at The Ohio State University to serve in the U.S. Army , where he remained until January 1946 . After entering training programs for languages , engineering , and piloting , all of which were canceled , he served as an orderly , draftsman and artist in noncombat roles . One of his duties at Camp Shelby was enlarging Bill Mauldin 's Stars and Stripes cartoons . He was sent to Europe with an engineer battalion , but did not see active combat . As a painter , he eventually settled on an abstract @-@ expressionist style with parodist elements . Around 1958 he began to incorporate hidden images of cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny into his abstract works . 

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 Roy Lichtenstein began experimentation with printmaking in the late 1940s , well before its rise in popularity in the early 1960s . Lichtenstein created his first lithograph and woodcut artwork in 1948 while he was working on receiving his graduate degree in fine arts from Ohio State University . During the late 1940s , he created abstract paintings influenced by several artists , especially Pablo Picasso . From 1951 through early 1956 , Lichtenstein painted what were considered by Gianni Mercurio to be " jagged , post @-@ cubist " designs of famous American artworks . Many of his pieces reflected portraits of the American west , especially Native Americans and cowboys , as well as other themes , such as images of president George Washington . Lichtenstein referred to the period as his " American " series , and it was generally negatively received by critics . Lichtenstein also began experimenting in abstract expressionism , using the technique on several of his western painting designs . These were poorly received , however , being compared by one critic to " the doodling of a five @-@ year old " . 

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 Prior to producing his first Brushstroke work , Lichtenstein spun his upcoming work as a satire of Abstract Expressionism . He stated that he intended to draw drips of paint and depictions of brush strokes . Years after the series was completed , Lichtenstein claimed the source for the series was Renaissance artist Frans Hals , a painterly artist whose brushstrokes descended from hallowed examples of European art as an inspiration to abstract expressionism . 
