James Rosenquist
James Rosenquist
James Rosenquistis an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. Rosenquist was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth29 November 1933
CityGrand Forks, ND
CountryUnited States of America
laying miami museums oranges virtually
I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.
art pop
I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
weighs
Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight.
avenue brush columbus dropped fell gallon painted purple seven seventh sign stories street wide
I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.
billboards painted store
I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.
canvas decided images instead pictures point reached recede spill
I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.
I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.
tricks
I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.
beautiful mean painting
It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.
space ceilings painting
Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.
feelings painting bigs
If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.
way energy painting
In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.
simple hair pigs
I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.
always-trying trying
I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.