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He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and studied at the Cooper Union Institute in New York City and, after a short stint in the United States Army, at the Ruskin School of Art (1958-59) and the Royal College of Art (1959-61) in London. He subsequently settled in England, and through the 1960s taught at the Ealing School of Art , the Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Art.

Kitaj became a significant contributor to British pop art with his figurative paintings featuring areas of bright colour, economic use of line and overlapping planes which made them resemble collages. Allusions to political history, art, literature and Jewish identity often recur in his work. He also produced a number of screen-printsScreen-printing also known as silkscreening or serigraphy is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged single- color image using a stencil and a porous fabric. A screenprint or serigraph is an image created using this technique. It began as an in. His later works have been more personal.

Kitaj was one of several artists to make a post-it noteA Post-it note (or just Post-it is a piece of stationery designed for temporarily attaching notes to documents, computer displays and so forth. A typical size is a 3- inch (7. 5 cm) square, and they are traditionally yellow in colour, though they are now in celebration of 3MThis article is about the American company, for the Russian company involved in a pyramid scheme, see MMM (pyramid 3M Company ( NYSE:MMM) (originally Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is an American corporation that produces a widely diversified's 20th anniversary. When auctioned on the internetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu in 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri, the charcoal and pastel piece sold for $925, making it the most expensive post-it note in history, a fact recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.