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James Rosenquist

1933 - 2017

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James Albert Rosenquist (November 29, 1933 – March 31, 2017) was an American artist and one of the proponents of the pop art movement. Drawing from his background working in sign painting, Rosenquist's pieces often explored the role of advertising and consumer culture in art and society, utilizing techniques he learned making commercial art to depict popular cultural icons and mundane everyday objects. While his works have often been compared to those from other key figures of the pop art movement, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist's pieces were unique in the way that they often employed elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to emphasize the overwhelming nature of ads. He was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Rosenquist has received more than 413,931 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. James Rosenquist is the 1,462nd most popular painter (down from 1,116th in 2019), the 4,980th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,925th in 2019) and the 66th most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, James Rosenquist ranks 1,462 out of 2,023. Before him are Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Simon Bening, Antonin Mercié, Leon Wyczółkowski, Grigory Gagarin, and Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. After him are Marie Vassilieff, Unkei, Giuseppe De Nittis, Nikifor, Louis Hersent, and William Orpen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, James Rosenquist ranks 266. Before him are Petra Schürmann, Frank Gorshin, René Burri, Zelda Rubinstein, Shigeo Yaegashi, and Constance Towers. After him are Sam Jones, William Smith, John Taylor, Jiří Tichý, Mary Ure, and Ceija Stojka. Among people deceased in 2017, James Rosenquist ranks 259. Before him are Gösta Ekman, Marita Lindahl, Ivan Dias, Derek Parfit, Jacques Simon, and Girija Devi. After him are Richard Hatch, Leonid Bronevoy, Giulio Angioni, Jaki Liebezeit, Lennart Nilsson, and Jiří Bělohlávek.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Rosenquist ranks 4,980 out of 20,380. Before him are Constance Towers (1933), Marsha Mason (1942), Eugene Sledge (1923), Gene Barry (1919), Rita Coolidge (1945), and Clarence Nash (1904). After him are Herbert Ross (1927), Brie Larson (1989), George Read (1733), Ruth Roman (1922), Matt Bomer (1977), and Bambi Woods (1955).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, James Rosenquist ranks 66. Before him are Adolph Gottlieb (1903), John Singleton Copley (1738), George Bellows (1882), Edwin Austin Abbey (1852), Haddon Sundblom (1899), and George Catlin (1796). After him are Anna Lea Merritt (1844), Rockwell Kent (1882), Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847), Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837), Alice Pike Barney (1857), and Charles Demuth (1883).

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