Hoyt L. Sherman

Hoyt L. Sherman (1903-1981) was an American artist and professor. He is widely credited with having a serious influence on the work of Roy Lichtenstein, who was a student of his during the fifties.

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1903 - 1981 - Roy Lichtenstein

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Hoyt Leon Sherman was born in Lafayette, Alabama.

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As a professor in Fine Arts at Ohio State University, he employed the "flash room", a darkened room where images would be briefly flashed onto the screen. The student was supposed to draw what they had seen. This method of of grasping an image by copying it would later be cited by Lichtenstein as having had an influence on his work.

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In 1963 he recieved the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching from Ohio State University. A gallery at the University is named after him.

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"You'd get a very strong afterimage, a total impression, and then you'd draw in the dark, the point being that you'd have to sense where the parts where in relation to to the whole - It was a mixture of science and aesthetics, and it became the centre of what I was interested in. Sherman was hard to understand, but he taught that the key to everything lay in what he called perceptual unity." ~ Roy Lichtenstein.

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