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POP ART James Rosenquist

POP ART James Rosenquist. Trained as a billboard painter Most famous work is the monumental F-111 1964-65. Oil on canvas with aluminum, twenty-three sections, 10 x 86' . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD6MHTP6YfE.

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POP ART James Rosenquist

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  1. POP ARTJames Rosenquist

  2. Trained as a billboard painter • Most famous work is the monumental F-1111964-65. Oil on canvas with aluminum, twenty-three sections, 10 x 86'

  3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD6MHTP6YfE • Subject & Content—Superimposing images of consumer products, an underwater diver, a doll-faced child, and an atomic explosion along the fuselage of an F-111 bomber plane, the work illustrated the connection between America's booming postwar economy and what President Eisenhower characterized as the military-industrial complex reformulated photographs and advertising imagery from popular magazines

  4. F-111 fuses pictures of American prosperity with a darker visual current. • A diver's air bubbles are rhymed by a mushroom cloud; • a smiling little girl sits under a missile-like hairdryer;

  5. a sea of spaghetti looks uncomfortably visceral; • and weaving through and around all these images is the F-111 itself, a U.S. Air Force fighter-bomber. • Painted during the Vietnam War, F-111 draws disturbing connections between militarism and the consumerist structure of the American economy.

  6. "Hey! Let's Go For A Ride," by James Rosenquist, oil on canvas, 34 1/8 by 35 7/8 inches, 1961, collection of Samuel and Ronnie Heyman, New York "Bedspring," by James Rosenquist, oil on canvas, with painted twine and stretcher bars, 36 inches square, 1962, collection of the artist

  7. "President Elect," by James Rosenquist, oil on masonite, 7 feet 5 3/4 inches by 12 feet, 1960-1, 1964, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'ArtModerne/Centre de CréationIndustrielle, Paris

  8. "Women's Intuition, after Aspen," by James Rosenquist, oil on canvas, 5 by 12 feet, 1998, collection of Marvin Ross Friedman, Coral Gables, Florida "Nasturtium Salad," by James Rosenquist, oil on canvas, 8 feet square, 1984, AXA Financial Inc., New York

  9. Mirage Morning," by James Rosenquist, color lithograph with Plexiglass and painted window-shade fixtures, string and stones, and fenestrated and painted window shade, 3 feet by 6 feet 2 inches, edition of 40, 1974-5, Collection of Linda G. Singer "Snow Fence," by James Rosenquist, oil on canvas, 4 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 1/8 inch, 1973, collection of the artist

  10. "Car Touch," by James Rosenquist, oil on shaped and mechanized canvas panels, 7 feet 4 inches by 6 feet 2 inches, 1966, collection of the artist "Sketch for Fire Pole Expo 67 Mural Montreal Canada; Study for Fire Pole," by James Rosenquist, oil on canvas, 48 by 24 inches, 1967, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles

  11. POP ART • An art movement and style that had its origins in England in the 1950s • United States during the 1960s. • Pop artists have focused attention upon familiar images of the popular culture such as billboards, comic strips, magazine advertisements, and supermarket products. • Leading exponents are Richard Hamilton (British, 1922-), Andy Warhol (American, 1928?1930?-1987), Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997), Claes Oldenburg (American, 1929-), Jasper Johns (American, 1930-), and Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-). • Pop Artists thought the Abstract Expressionistspretentious and over-intense so Pop Art was a reaction against Abstract Expressionism

  12. The first Pop Art painting by Richard Hamilton, British. Hamilton's 1956 collagetitled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

  13. Other Pop Artists: • Jim Dine • Red Grooms • Richard Hamilton • Keith Haring • David Hockney • Robert Indiana • Jasper Johns • Roy Lichtenstein • Peter Max • Claes Oldenburg • Robert Rauschenberg • Larry Rivers • James Rosenquist • Ed Ruscha • George Segal • Wayne Thiebaud • Andy Warhol • Tom Wesselmann

  14. Jim Dine

  15. Keith Haring

  16. David Hockney

  17. Robert Indiana

  18. Jasper Johns

  19. Roy Lichtenstein

  20. Claes Oldenburg

  21. Robert Rauschenberg

  22. George Segal

  23. Wayne Thiebaud

  24. What would 21st century Pop Art look like? • Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects…which would be? • Banal (ordinary, dull, boring, cliched) or kitschy (tasteless, vulgar, tacky) elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony.

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