Rosenquist, James, 1933–, American painter, b. Grand Forks, N.Dak. He moved to New York City in 1955. Identified with the pop art pop art, a movement that first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of abstract expressionism . British and American pop artists employed a common imagery found in comic strips, soup cans, and Coke bottles to express
..... Click the link for more information. movement, Rosenquist incorporates disparate and fragmented images of everyday American life into his huge canvases. Although they are realistically painted, they can appear abstract because of their vast scale and color. Rosenquist borrowed from his earlier experience as a billboard painter for these works. His best-known painting, F-111 (1965), is a 51-panel work occupying the walls of an entire room; it enigmatically juxtaposes such images as a warplane, a child under a hair dryer, a cake, a mushroom cloud and beach umbrella, light bulbs, a tire, and a mass of spaghetti. Rosenquist, who has sometimes worked in sculpture, mixed media, and collage, is also a prolific printmaker.

Bibliography

See J. Goldman, James Rosenquist (1985); C. W. Glenn, Time Dust: James Rosenquist Complete Graphics 1962–1992 (1993); J. Hopps et al., James Rosenquist: A Retrospective (2003).

Rosenquist, James

(born Nov. 29, 1933, Grand Forks, N.D., U.S.) U.S. painter. His youthful employment as a billboard painter influenced the enlarged imagery and cool, impersonal style of painting that he developed by the early 1960s. In a typical painting, he juxtaposed imagery from pop culture, advertising, and other mass media using bright colours and a large canvas. This interest in popular culture has led many to define him as a precursor to Pop art. He has also created large works combining lithography, screenprinting, etching, and collage.

Rosenquist, James (1933– ) painter; born in Grand Forks, N.D. He studied at the Art Students League, New York (1954–55), settled in New York (1957), and became associated with the pop art movement of the 1960s. He painted billboards in Times Square (1958–60), and used this approach in his most famous work, F-111 (1965), an antimilitary protest. Beginning in 1963 he created room environments, as in Horizon Home Sweet Home (1970).