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James Rosenquist

1933–2017 · American · Pop Art
The billboard man
James Rosenquist

Rosenquist painted billboards above Times Square for a living, then turned that skill on the canvas, splicing car grilles, spaghetti, and bomber jets into wall-sized fragments. He understood scale the way an ad does, so close up the images dissolve and only the overwhelm survives.

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