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
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The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.
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I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!
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The automobile crash was... devastating in ways that I still cannot really bear to think about... It took me many years to recover. In some ways, I never have.
weighs
Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight.
tricks
I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.
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I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
collages stick
I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.
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It's amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.
When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
art believe
Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
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I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'
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I used to know Madison Avenue advertisers. I didn't like 'em. Bunch of jerks.
The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.
gets time
As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.