James Rosenquist Research Paper

On November 29, 1933 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, an American artist was born. James Albert Rosenquist was a painter, print maker, and “Pop” artist. He studied art at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1948, and at the Art Students League, New York in 1954. He then studied Eastern philosophy and history at Aspen Institute of Humanist Studies, Colorado in 1965. Rosenquist married and divorced Mary Lou Adams after having one child, John, and then married Melinda Thompson and had another child, Lily McLean (“James Rosenquist”).
James Rosenquist was a painter and a writer. At the early stage of his life, he was even a billboard painter. Rosenquist has had over 100 exhibitions displaying his work, numerous collections, a few art books, and even a popular writing, Painting below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. He won an “Art in America Young Talent USA” award in 1963, the Golden Plate and American Academy of Achievement awards in 1988, and an award from the Fundacion Cristobal Gabarron in Valladolid, Spain in 2002. He was also inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1987 (“James Rosenquist”).
I chose James Rosenquist for my artist shirt collection because of his use of incredibly bright and fun colors. Tim Murphy
He was an icon of the Pop Art movement. Tim Murphy also wrote in his article, “His innovation, much like Andy Warhol’s, was to bring the imagery-and the scale-of the billboards he’d been painting into the gallery,” (“James Rosenquist”). Michael Kimmelman wrote about Rosenquist’s art through the years. He explains how the paintings are “frustratingly deceptive” because of how easy they look to understand, but are really complex. He wrote about how there was a jazzy, jumpy rhythm to his imagery, how they were crisp and bold, and how they stood out among many other artists (Michael