
“James Rosenquist" (A Small Planet Being Covered by Large Mirrors)
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James Rosenquist“James Rosenquist" (A Small Planet Being Covered by Large Mirrors)1972
1972
About the Item
- Creator:James Rosenquist (1933, American)
- Creation Year:1972
- Dimensions:Height: 39 in (99.06 cm)Width: 26 in (66.04 cm)
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- Condition:There is minor wear on the left side of the top edge. There is a 1 cm tear on the left edge (11-in from the bottom) and a 1.5 cm tear on the right edge (9-in from the top). There is creasing on the bottom left corner and throughout the surface.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU116824600182
James Rosenquist
Although he insisted that he and his fellow Pop artists developed their art-making styles independently, American painter James Rosenquist belonged at the table with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
Known for his distinctive use of visual montage, Rosenquist produced large, vibrantly colored tableaux marked by fragmentation and overlap. He often employed familiar motifs and objects drawn from popular contemporary culture — hot dogs, lipstick tubes, American flags — which he manipulated to form disorienting compositions whose constituent elements are nearly unrecognizable.
Born in North Dakota to Swedish parents, Rosenquist was encouraged to pursue painting by his mother, who was also an artist. He studied painting for two years at the University of Minnesota, but dropped out at the age of 21 to attend the Art Students League in New York on a scholarship. A job as a billboard painter in the late 1950s set him up to pursue his signature style, which borrowed its bold graphics and remixed kitschy aesthetic from the visual vocabulary of advertising. Works like Flamingo Capsule (1983) embody his trademark visual dissonance, drawing cigarette-ad motifs into conversation with stripes from the American flag and aluminum foil wrappers.
In addition to enormous paintings, Rosenquist created drawings, prints and collages. The 2011 lithograph The Memory Continues but the Clock Disappears is a montage of melting clocks and confetti, all submerged in a pool of water. While wryly hinting at the inevitability of decay and deterioration — suggesting that life is a ticking clock — the composition also alludes to Salvador Dalí's signature motif, the defining symbol of Surrealism. Such compositions demonstrate how Rosenquist masterfully combined seemingly incongruous elements into a harmonious and poetic whole.
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