Ronald Brooks Kitaj

Ronald Brooks Kitaj RA (29 October 1932 – 21 October 2007) was an American artist who spent much of his life in England. Kitaj had a significant influence on British pop art, with his figurative paintings featuring areas of bright colour, economic use of line and overlapping planes which made them resemble collages, but eschewing most abstraction and modernism. Allusions to political history, art, literature and Jewish identity often recur in his work, mixed together on one canvas to produce a collage effect.