James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist ( born November 29, 1933, Grand Forks, North Dakota) is an American pop art painter.

Life and work

Rosenquist continued, after a short-term Fellowship at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1948 to study painting at the University of Minnesota from 1952 to 1954 continued. In 1955 he went to New York City, where he received a scholarship to study at the Art Students League and met in 1956 on Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, and Robert Rauschenberg.

From 1957 to 1960 he earned his livelihood by painting billboards. With the advent of Pop Art, he soon became one of its leading representatives. He turned to the techniques of Plakatmalens on the large-format paintings, which he created in 1960. In the New Yorker " Green Gallery " in 1962 he had his first solo exhibition, through which he received extensive attention in the public and press. Like other Pop Art artists, Rosenquist took over the visual language of advertising and pop - culture in the context of fine art. International recognition was bestowed on him in 1965 with the space-filling painting F -111. James Rosenquist painted the bomber F -111 spread over four huge fields combined with other subjects such as spaghetti with tomato sauce, a hairdryer, light bulbs and a mushroom cloud. The painting is about three meters high and 26 meters wide.

His specialty is to combine torn, fehlproportioniert acting individual images on the screen to let them overlap and contrast to produce stories. This type of story can surprise the viewer by bringing him to think about familiar objects such as a trailer of American moving company U-Haul or a box of Oxydol Cleaner in a new way.

In addition to painting, he has created a variety of prints, drawings and collages. One of his prints Time Dust ( time dust) (1992 ) is considered the greatest pressure in the world ( about 2 × 11 meters).

Since the first retrospectives of his work, which were in 1972 by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, and the Wallraf -Richartz Museum, Cologne, organized, he is the subject of many exhibitions in galleries and museums, both in the United States, as well as outside. He continues large-scale commissioned art forth, among other things, consists of three paintings work, The Swimmer in the Econo -mist (pun - something like this: float in the haze of Economics ) (1997-1998 ) for the German Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, and a painting which is to decorate the ceiling of the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. His work is still evolving in exciting ways and retains its influence on younger generations of artists. His most recent work deals with the phenomenon of time and were in the exhibition The Hole can be seen in the Center of Time in the Jablonka Galerie in Berlin in 2008.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards and honors

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