James rosenquist

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…

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…

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92.10 The Serenade for the Doll after Claude Debussy, Gift Wrapped Doll #1

MoMA | James Rosenquist: F-111

In the early 1960s, James Rosenquist emerged as a leader of the Pop Art movement, employing the techniques of advertising illustration and the imagery of popular culture to provoke sharp questions about the nature of a society steeped in consumerism and mass-produced images. Through solid academic training and a long apprenticeship painting giant advertising billboards, Rosenquist mastered powerful techniques for rendering the bright, reflective surfaces of industrial products, and learned…

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. © 2023 James Rosenquist/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Painting and Sculpture

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