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07-JAN-2000

Homage to James Rosenquist.

James Rosenquist (born November 29, 1933) is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement.
From 1957 to 1960, he earned his living as a billboard painter. This was perfect training, as it turned out, for an artist about to explode onto the pop art scene. Rosenquist deftly applied sign-painting techniques to the large-scale paintings he began creating in 1960. Like other pop artists, Rosenquist adapted the visual language of advertising and pop culture (often funny, vulgar, and outrageous) to the context of fine art. Rosenquist achieved international acclaim in 1965 with the room-scale painting F-111.
Rosenquist has said the following about his involvement in the Pop Art movement: "They (art critics) called me a Pop artist because I used recognizable imagery. The critics like to group people together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964. I did not really know Andy or Roy Lichtenstein that well. We all emerged separately."
His specialty is taking fragmented, oddly disproportionate images and combining, overlapping, and putting them on canvases to create visual stories. This can leave viewers breathless, making them consider even the most familiar objects (a U-Haul trailer, or a box of Oxydol detergent, etc.) in more abstract and provocative ways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rosenquist
I choose to link my image called “LaZboy” to the work of James Rosenquist. Rosenquist as you can see in the short bio above is considered a “Pop” artist but the point that has the significance for me in this comparison is his use of billboard type images to create a fine art statement. (“From 1957 to 1960, he earned his living as a billboard painter. This was perfect training, as it turned out, for an artist about to explode onto the pop art scene. Rosenquist deftly applied sign-painting techniques to the large-scale paintings he began creating in 1960.”) I love the use of billboard signage to create fine art. I’m always on the lookout with my own photos to find layered billboard signage. The strange content that occurs because of layering and weathering and accident gives the art it's wonderful serendipity, which for me adds a new dimension in the content of these found images. My photo here that has the “LaZboy” man (nice contradiction boy-man) missing his head, which is just the typical kind of juxtaposition that occurs in Rosenquist’s large paintings.
http://www.rachelgoede.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/0425-f-111Rosenquist.jpg
http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/02/03/RosenquistJNomad.jpg
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/finch/Images/finch5-2-1.jpg
http://www.allartnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/James-Rosenquist-I-Love-You-with-My-Ford-1961.jpg

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