Rosenquist, James (1933–2017). Painter, printmaker, and occasional sculptor
A major contributor to *pop art, he specialized during the 1960s in monumental paintings juxtaposing extreme close-ups of unrelated subjects from popular culture. Rosenquist’s experience as a billboard painter drove the formation of his personal style of immediately readable forms, garish colors, and distorted scale. The pessimistic, unsettling, and irrational tone of his work contrasts markedly with the easy-going banality of much pop art. Rosenquist’s best known work, ... ...
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