James rosenquist

A seminal Pop artist, Rosenquist's colossal consumer products, weaponry, and celebrities reflect the artist's social, political, and cultural concerns.

James Rosenquist (November 29, 1933 — March 31, 2017) was an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop art movement. Drawing from his background working in sign painting, Rosenquist’s…

MoMA | James Rosenquist: F-111

James Rosenquist. Marilyn Monroe, I. 1962. Oil and spray enamel on canvas. 7' 9" x 6' 1/4" (236.2 x 183.3 cm). The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. 646.1967. © 2024 James Rosenquist/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Painting and Sculpture

Much like his fellow Pop pioneer Andy Warhol, who spent his first decade in New York working as a commercial illustrator, the artist James Rosenquist was able to so acutely capture American pop culture thanks to his own un-bohemian beginnings: He started out painting billboards atop the skyscrapers in Times Square, a day job whose bright, bold colors eventually bled into the abstract paintings he devoted himself to after work. Almost equally oversized, thanks to an abundance of panels—his…

World's Fair Mural, 1963-64. (James Rosenquist)

Lipstick in James Rosenquist's House of Fire, 1981 http://www.farbav.com

The Friction Disappears represents the effortless flow of pictures and information in our culture, where unrelated or contradictory ideas overlap one another. Rosenquist painted the car in the same hot hue as the canned spaghetti simply because he liked the color. The tiny electrons orbiting the globe on the car door are like the paths of ideas and images crisscrossing in the modern world. Rosenquist compares the uncanny combinations that result to "two soap bubbles colliding and coming…

Official website for the American artist whose 40+-year career was celebrated in a fall 2003 retrospective at New York's Guggenheim Museum.

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