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  Art/Museums: James Rosenquist: A Retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
James Rosenquist is the whirling dervish of Pop Art, spinning and spewing out incongruous collections of images that smack of banality and surprise with almost catacylsmic energy.
Rosenquist, according to Hopps, utilized various methods to incorporate "a collection of things into a composition in such a way that they they make a kind of sense, even if it is sometimes in counterpoint to what the individual objects imply.
Rosenquist is certainly epic and grandiose and theatrical, often excessively.
www.thecityreview.com /rosenq.html   (2490 words)

  
 James Rosenquist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Rosenquist painted large billboard images that became collages of pop culture images.
Rosenquist is known for having painted the largest print in exisitence in 1992 titled Time Dust.
F-111, probably Rosenquist’s most famous peace both artistically which was 26 meters wide and with the message it conveyed by utilizing a spatial organization of the composition into layers, depicts that of America at war and the possible catastrophe that could bring.
tiger.towson.edu /~dbaez1/jamesrosenquist.htm   (204 words)

  
 James Rosenquist | USF Public Art | Institute for Research in Art
The Surrealist implications of Rosenquist's work of this period are clearly recognizable as a function of unanticipated tactile effects, particularly the sharp and spiky." Raw, the sculpture suggests a military blockade as much as a work of art, and the sculpture perfectly captures the tense political climate of the early 1960s.
Rosenquist believes that public sculpture is more than a matter of good work; it is a matter of appropriate location and thoughtful positioning within a context.
In this way, Rosenquist's design was bonded to the fiberglass structure of the sculpture in such as way as to protect the image from the weather for the maximum amount of time.
www.usfcam.usf.edu /PA/Pages/pa_rosenquist.html   (1701 words)

  
 db artmag - all the news on Deutsche Bank Art // alle Infos über die Kunstaktivitäten der Deutschen Bank
James Rosenquist, born 1933 in the Midwest, is considered to be one of the most important representatives of American Pop Art.
Rosenquist applied a kind of artificial fog to his works to de-materialize the upper and lower edges of their pictorial space; he used hanging sheets of painted plastic to carry his collage technique into the third dimension.
The largest of Rosenquist's paintings to date, and over 160 feet long in all, not only depicts German Reunification in an explosion of color, but draws the viewer into a whirlpool of shifting motifs and perspectives: it's a "diary of the stormy mood of our time," as Rosenquist explained in an interview with Robert Rosenblum.
www.deutsche-bank-kunst.com /art/2003/13/e/4/127.php   (663 words)

  
 James Rosenquist - Information from Reference.com
James Rosenquist (born November 29, 1933) is an acclaimed American artist.
In junior high school, Rosenquist won a short-term scholarship to study at the Minneapolis School of Art and subsequently studied painting at the University of Minnesota from 1952 to 1954.
Rosenquist deftly applied sign-painting techniques to the large-scale paintings he began creating in 1960.
www.reference.com /search?q=James+Rosenquist   (711 words)

  
 Welcome to the Water Planet paperworks by James Rosenquist
Rosenquist’s association with Ken Tyler goes back many years to the time when he was keen to be further involved in printmaking to reach a wider audience through using new media.
Rosenquist’s series of paper works were intended to act both as a celebration and a warning to what might happen to the water planet.
James Rosenquist 'Caught one lost one for the fast student or star catcher' 1989, coloured pressed paper pulp, lithograph, collage, Collection of the National Gallery of Australia, purchased with the assistance of the Orde Poynton Fund 2002 ©; James Rosenquist.
nga.gov.au /rosenquist   (2366 words)

  
 James Rosenquist
Born in North Dakota in 1933, James Rosenquist won a short-term scholarship to study at the Minneapolis School of Art in junior high school, and subsequently studied painting at the University of Minnesota from 1952 to 1954.
Rosenquist achieved international acclaim in 1965 with the room-scale painting F-111.
Rosenquist has received numerous honors, including selection as Art In America Young Talent USA in 1963, appointment to a six-year term on the Board of the National Council of the Arts in 1978, and receiving the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement in 1988.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/j/ja/james_rosenquist.html   (403 words)

  
 James Rosenquist | American Icons | Area of Design
By 1960 Rosenquist had set aside enough of his commercial earnings to allow him to spend a year painting in his studio.
Rosenquist had his first one-man exhibition at the Green Gallery in New York in 1962, and every painting was sold.
Among Rosenquist's honors is the World Print Award, which he received in 1983 from the World Print Council at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
www.areaofdesign.com /americanicons/rosenquist.htm   (405 words)

  
 James Rosenquist - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Rosenquist, who has sometimes worked in sculpture, mixed media, and collage, is also a prolific printmaker.
James Rosenquist at full scale: it has been four decades since Rosenquist emerged as a central figure in the Pop art movement.
Rosenquist exhibit showcases paintings instilled with sense of thoughtful chaos.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Rosenqui.html   (529 words)

  
 James Rosenquist: A Retrospective at Guggenheim Museum
As a billboard painter, Rosenquist was trained to think in terms of his works being viewed at a great distance, and he paints for this resolution through optical diminution.
Rosenquist is shown as a painter's painter—a master of a near-extinct commercial technique and its summary/mimetic paradox.
James Rosenquist: A Retrospective is at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, October 17, 2003—January 25, 2004 and at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao July to October 2004.
home.earthlink.net /~dadaloplop/james_rosenquist.html   (598 words)

  
 The Daily Princetonian - Guggenheim reflects on Pop Art of James Rosenquist
In the new exhibition at the Guggenheim, "James Rosenquist: A Retrospective", the influence of his past profession is among the few commonalities of his work over the years.
James Rosenquist was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1933 and studied art at the University of Minnesota and then at New York's Art Students League.
Rosenquist's most famous and spectacular work, F-111 is a full room painting — 10 feet high and 86 feet long — and full Pop immersion.
www.dailyprincetonian.com /archives/2003/11/06/arts/8998.shtml   (1083 words)

  
 James Rosenquist
Rosenquist had learnt how to handle extreme scale of painting during his spell as a billboard painter, first during his vacations from the University of Minnesota, and later during his time as a commercial artist in 1957.
Rosenquist's sense of colour composition and manipulation on a large scale now enters the subject-world of space galaxy and its accompanying dynamics.
Rosenquist readily seemed to embrace the visual grammar of the Sci-Fi and Scientific American projections and speculations of the 1970s - but he never quite lost his head.
www.studio-international.co.uk /painting/rosenquist.asp   (1068 words)

  
 Artfacts.Net: James Rosenquist - a retrospective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Rosenquist drew on the iconography of advertising and mass media to conjure a sense of contemporary life.
Born in 1933 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Rosenquist took art classes at the Minneapolis Institute of Art as a teenager and studied painting with Cameron Booth at the University of Minnesota between 1952 and 1954.
“James Rosenquist: A Retrospective” is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work in all media since 1972.
www.artfacts.net /index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/11525   (489 words)

  
 ArtsNet Minnesota: Identity: James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist was born on November 29, 1933, in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Rosenquist was interested in art when he was young and received a scholarship when he was 15 to attend classes at the Minneapolis School of Art.
In 1972, Rosenquist was arrested as a Vietnam War protester in Washington, D.C. He has continued to work for artists' rights and political issues.
www.artsconnected.org /artsnetmn/identity/rosen2.html   (408 words)

  
 About James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist in front of his work Coffee Flavours Ideas, an expression of the merger of beauty, culture, color and coffee.
James Rosenquist, considered one of the founding fathers of pop art, was born in North Dakota in 1933 into a family of Scandinavian origin.
Rosenquist's relationship with illy began years later, when he was commissioned to design the brilliant red-hued illy logo that has since become synonymous with the illy brand.
www.beautyhasataste.com /events/About-James-Rosenquist.asp   (202 words)

  
 James Rosenquist
Rosenquist was born in 1933 at Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Between 1985 and 1987 Rosenquist's development as an artist was shown in a comprehensive retrospective at six American museums.
Rosenquist's art has long been featured at galleries and museums; the Guggenheim has announced that its first exhibit in its newly-reconstructed exhibition spaces will be a James Rosenquist Retrospective in Fall 2002.
spaightwoodgalleries.com /Pages/Rosenquist.html   (1033 words)

  
 James Rosenquist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
James Rosenquist was a major figure in the 1960s movement known as Pop art.
Rosenquist became intrigued by the fact that while painting a billboard, he could only see a fragment of it at a time.
James Rosenquist was showing what American culture was like in the 1960s.
www.albrightknox.org /ArtStart/Rosenquist.html   (453 words)

  
 Haunch of Venison: James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist (born Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA,1933) is one of the most important American artists of the past fifty years.
Rosenquist worked as a billboard painter from 1957-60, meeting and befriending at this time key figures such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
Rosenquist's work is in important collections worldwide including MoMA, New York; the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and the Tate Modern, London where Silo, 1963-4 is currently on display.
www.artnet.com /event/107838/james-rosenquist.html   (743 words)

  
 Working Dogs Book Store - James Rosenquist: A Retrospective (James Rosenquist , Walter Hopps , Sarah Bancroft)
James Rosenquist: A Retrospective (James Rosenquist, Walter Hopps, Sarah Bancroft)
As a catalog of the Rosenquist Retrospective at the Guggenheim, this is probably, if not, the best and most comprehensive book on the work of James Rosenquist available.
The majority of the pages are of Rosenquist's finished paintings from the 1950's up to the recent and refined work such as "Stowaway Peers Out at the Speed of Light".
www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/0892072679.htm   (484 words)

  
 ArtsNet Minnesota: Identity: James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist was the youngest of the artists invited.
The 20-foot-square mural Rosenquist painted especially for this building is like many of his paintings during this time.
Rosenquist often includes words or images that have to do with his own memories or events that happened to him.
www.artsconnected.org /artsnetmn/identity/rosen.html   (399 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Time Dust: James Rosenquist Complete Graphics 1962-1992: Livres en anglais: James Rosenquist,Constance W. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In many of his prints, James Rosenquist aims to pack the same power found in his billboard-size Pop paintings.
In her thorough essay, Glenn, the director of the University Art Museum of California State University, follows Rosenquist's trajectory from Pop doodles of spaghetti to haunting images exploring the "state of our planet." A catalogue raisonne of Rosenquist's prints is included among the hundreds of color plates.
Rosenquist's leadership role in manipulating mass-media, pop imagery, and vivid color contrasts will interest art students and scholars.
www.amazon.fr /Time-Dust-Rosenquist-Complete-1962-1992/dp/0847817091   (466 words)

  
 Guggenheim Museum - James Rosenquist - Biography
Born in 1933 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, James Rosenquist studied art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as a teenager and at the University of Minnesota between 1952 and 1954, painting billboards during the summers.
In 1962, he had his first solo exhibition at the Green Gallery in New York, and afterward was included in a number of groundbreaking group exhibitions that established Pop art as a movement.
From his early days as a billboard painter to his recent masterful use of abstract painting techniques, Rosenquist has demonstrated his interest in and mastery of color, line, and shape that continues to dazzle audiences and influence younger generations of artists.
www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/rosenquist/biography.html   (345 words)

  
 Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Rosenquist - The Swimmer in the Econo-mist
When James Rosenquist quit his job painting billboards in New York City in 1960, he imported many commercial techniques of the sign-painting trade into his work.
Rosenquist continues to produce large-scale works, including the recent three-painting suite The Swimmer in the Econo-mist commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.
According to Rosenquist, “There’s an old Venetian saying, ‘The artist swims in the water, the critic stands ashore.’ So the swimmer is the active party.
www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_work_md_137A_1.html   (304 words)

  
 James Rosenquist Artist Biography at ARTinaClick.com
James Rosenquist first moved from North Dakota to New York in 1955 after winning a scholarship to the Art Students League.
Rosenquist's use of billboard painting techniques and collaged image fragments in his paintings began in 1960.
Rosenquist was moving into the inner circle of the New York scene.
www.artinaclick.com /artist/bio.asp?fk_artist=7851   (250 words)

  
 Hofstra Museum, Permanent Collection, James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist enrolled in the University of Minnesota?s art program in 1948.
In 1970 Rosenquist was given comprehensive retrospectives at the Wallraf-Richards Museum, Cologne, and the Whitney Museum, New York.
Between 1985 and 1987 Rosenquist's entire development as an artist was shown in a comprehensive retrospective at six American museums.
www.hofstra.edu /COM/Museum/Museum_collection_81_51.cfm   (354 words)

  
 James Rosenquist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Rosenquist was a billboard painter, working high over New York's Times Square.
Rosenquist has been painting since he was a teenager.
Rosenquist's images were taken from his daily experiences in the landscape that had been transformed by the industrial society.
www.buena-vista.k12.va.us /ArtIcons/JamesRosenquist.html   (164 words)

  
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James Rosenquist uses Coffee Flowers Ideas to depict the cycle of the coffee bean by using his trademark principle of superimposing images from a complex event that takes place over a long period in time.
The design on each mug is a flash narration that illustrates various periods in the life of coffee—from plant through to the smile after the first sip.
Rosenquist feels that his designs on the mugs show "the birth of intuition and ideas that generate pleasure and smiles."
www.illyusa.com /pr/rosenquist.htm   (577 words)

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