James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist

James 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Rosenquist has received more than 295,762 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). James Rosenquist is the 851st most popular painter (up from 885th in 2019), the 2,896th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,903rd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Painter.