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James Rosenquist

"A painting cannot be massproduced contrary to some belief."

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Notes of biography

James Rosenquist was born in 1933 in Grand Forks (Dakota, United States). He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art, then at the University of Minnesota (1948-1952). He settles down in New York in 1955, gets an education to the Art Student League, and finally decides to work for the advertisement.
In 1960, James Rosenquist undertakes in the Pop Art adventure. His first personal exhibition takes place in 1962. He applies in his paintings data that he mastered in his advertising work (simplified image, big format, style, dimension, scale, visual association, sense of the colours, etc.). The art of Rosenquist tells about big modern myths. The artist surrounds all the exhibition walls with huge environments-paintings which he settles on split panels. James Rosenquist paints familiar images, political pamphlets or manifestoes-pictures, undertaking against the Vietnam war, against the world of the atom.
In the late 60's, the artist participates in the Op Art searches, works the plastic; Rosenquist cuts his works in small strips so that we can walk through his creations. From the middle of the 70s, the artist creates a set of ice-cold and sophisticated paintings-assemblies. In 1995, James Rosenquist begins a series of paper constructions (New Paper Constructions). His most recent works, where colours are broken by white, are abstracted, an abstraction close to the painter Noland.
James Rosenquist shared his time between New York and Arekipa (Florida, United States). The artist has passed away on march 31st, 2017.

Artists on display

The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.

Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.

We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.

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Bibliographic track and more

To read about the artist :
  • « James Rosenquist », J. Pierre, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, 1965
  • « James Rosenquist », Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1973
  • « Drawings While Waiting for an Idea », J. R., Lapp Princess Press , NY, 1979
  • « James Rosenquist », J Goldman, Viking Press, New York, 1985
  • « Welcome to the Water Planet and House of Fire…», cat.,, Mount Kisco, N.Y., 1989
  • « J. Rosenquist : Time Dust », Larson, Philip, Mount Kisco, Tyler Graphics, N.Y., 1992
  •  J. Rosenquist », W. Jeffett, cat. d'expo., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2001
  • « J. R.: a retrospective », S. Bancroft - J. Yang, Guggenheim, New York, 2003
  •  J. R. : Four decades, 1970-2010 », S. C. Bancroft, Ed. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2017
  • « J. R. : Painting as immersion », S. C. Bancroft et autres, Ed. Prestel, 2018
To read from the artist :
  • « Time dust », Tyler Graphics Ltd, New York, 1992
  • «Painting below zero… », J.R & D. Dalton, Ed. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2009
Website :
www.jimrosenquist-artist.com

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Art movements

+ POP'ART / 1955-1970 / Pauline Boty, Sigmar Polke, Romero Britto, Tom Wesselmann, etc.
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