Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This makeover is more than meets the eye.

Roy Lichtenstein was an American who helped to found pop art in the 1960s.

Lichtenstein’s works like his 1965 “Reverie”, the inspiration for this video, borrow imagery from pop culture and mass media including comics.

Watch to learn more about his iconic style and see makeup meet pop art like never before.

View "Reverie” in our online collection: nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.80721.html

We became the largest repository of Roy Lichtensteins’s works when he donated 154 prints and two books to the museum in 1996. Check out more of Lichtenstein’s work at his artist’s page: nga.gov/collection/artist-info.4711.html?artobj_artistId=4711&pageSize=30&pageNumber=15#biography

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