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a painting of a yellow truck with spaghetti on it

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…

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the obama campaign is depicted in this collage

James rosenquist is an American artist who combines both pop art and fine art. He creates his work using techniques such as silkscreen printing and collage. His collages are composed in a way that the individual objects make sense together and tell a story. His print 'president elect' uses the image of Kennedy's face from his campaign poster, which is another example of appropriation. Rosenquist said he was interested in people who advertise themselves.

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a painting with various colors and designs on it

View The Meteor Hits the Swimmer's Pillow by James Rosenquist, sold at Contemporary Art Evening Sale on New York 16 May 2013 7pm. Learn more about the piece and artist, and its final selling price.

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an abstract painting with blue, red and yellow colors on the bottom half of it

James Rosenquist. Expo 67 Mural - Firepole 33' x 17'. 1967. Lithograph. composition: 33 1/16 x 17" (84 x 43.2 cm); sheet: 33 15/16 x 18 13/16" (86.2 x 47.8 cm). Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, New York. Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, New York. Gift of the Celeste and Armand Bartos Foundation. 65.1968. © 2025 James Rosenquist/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Drawings & Prints

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two hands touching each other in front of stacks of plates and silverware on a table

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…

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