Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was a prominent American pop artist, whose work borrowed heavily from popular advertising and comic styles, which he himself described as being "as artificial as possible." His best known works, such as Drowning Girl (1963) feature thick outlines, bold colors, and dots to represent certain colors, as if in a photographic reproduction. Rather than attempt to reproduce his subjects, his work seems to tackle the way mass media would portray them.