James Rosenquist
(American, 1933 - )
Space Dust, 1989
Lithograph collage on handmade, hand-colored paper
66 ½ x 105 ¼ inches James Rosenquist is one of the key figures that established Pop art as a movement. From his early days as a billboard painter, Rosenquist closely examined American society and consumerism. Space Dust from the series, Welcome to the Water Planet, uses recognizable imagery including pencils and wheel bearings set in an intergalactic atmosphere combining dynamic color with printing, photography and painting to create an intentionally conflicting, but undeniably intriguing composition. James Rosenquist American painter. Rosenquist’s billboard-sized paintings address such Pop Art subject matter as consumerism, sex and anti-war themes. He was the first American painter to win the prestigious Venice Biennale Art Exhibit. His inclusion in a number of groundbreaking group exhibits established Pop Art as a movement. Born in Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1933, Rosenquist studied at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as a teenager. In 1955 he moved to New York and after a year at the Art Students League he returned to commercial art and painted billboards in Times Square. Rosenquist’s print, Time Dust (1992), is thought to be the largest print in the world measuring 7 by 35 feet.
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