From New York Billboard Painter to Pop Art Master… Creating a New World of Symbols and Metaphors

Coupled with a series of painted montages, scaled up to test the viewer’s tolerance for auratic seduction, this exhibition reveals something of the mind behind James Rosenquist’s ‘surreal movie’...

“New York is always hopeful,” said Dorothy Parker, and no one expresses that better than James Rosenquist. Rosenquist’s All-American paintings were a defining staple of New York in the 1960s...

"This exhibition may revise your ideas about Pop art and James Rosenquist‘s role in its irresistible rise..."

'If Rosenquist has a successor, it’s Jeff Koons, another artist who dwells on the tacky excess of affluence. But simply as a painter, Rosenquist was far better...'

This is “The Light That Won’t Fail I”, James Rosenquist’s early experiment of collaging painting and layered images to transform the commercial and banal into something strange and uncanny. It visits from Washington’s Hirshhorn for Ropac’s expansive museum-quality exhibition of 1960s works, the first London show for three decades of the playful, thoughtful American painter who began his career on the streets...

The 1960s was a defining decade for James Rosenquist (1933–2017), one of the most revered and influential American artists of his generation. His paintings radically tested the possibilities of perception, of the image and of the painted medium itself, propelling him to the centre of art-world attention...

"Surreal, innovative and political paintings by an American artist worshipped by Andy Warhol have gone on display in London.

James Rosenquist was a pop art pioneer whose name is well known in America and parts of Europe, but far less so in the UK..."

In a major exhibition by James Rosenquist (1933–2017), for the first time ever the Museum Ludwig will present works by this renowned representative of American Pop Art in the context of their cultural, social, and political dimensions. Along with archive materials and documents designated by the artist as source materials, some of which have not previously been exhibited, the show will reveal a historical cosmos. After all, James Rosenquist’s compositions are to a large extent the result of his marked interest in the political events of his time.

A few months after his death on March 31 in New York at the age of 83, here is the return to Cologne of James Rosenquist, the American "larger than life". The Museum Ludwig is famous for its pioneering collection of pop art that the labyrinth of its concrete rooms discover with the necessary brutality...

Fifteen [years] after the retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne pays tribute to the work of the American painter James Rosenquist, pioneer of Pop Art, who died last March...

James Rosenquist filled entire rooms with his dreams -- bold images of everyday life, transformed. He was a bright star of '60s pop art...

James Rosenquist in the retrospective.
COLOGNE. He painted as for giants. The formats of pop art artist James Rosenquist were enormous. Maybe for the last time now all important works are united...

For the first time ev­er the Mu­se­um Lud­wig will pre­sent the works of this impor­tant Amer­i­can Pop artist. The ex­hi­bi­tion fol­lows the cen­tral as­pect of ‘paint­ing as im­mer­sion,’....

James Rosenquist, who helped define Pop Art in its 1960s heyday with his boldly scaled painted montages of commercial imagery, died on Friday in New York City. He was 83 years old...

A Pop pioneer who got his start painting billboards may not seem like the likeliest collaborator for a famous minimalist, but Donald Judd first entertained the idea of exhibiting James Rosenquist’s loud canvases at his estate back in the late ‘80s...

Perhaps the first time that the Minimalist pioneer Donald Judd and James Rosenquist occupied the same space was in a 1964 issue of “Art in America.” In Judd’s August survey of gallery goings-on (including blurbs on Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Ellsworth Kelly), the then part-time critic refers to Rosenquist as one of the patriarchs of pop art, and to his “billboard technique...”

If you were to classify Pop artists using old categories, James Rosenquist would be a history painter, the creator of paradelike canvases sometimes large enough to turn corners and epic enough to embody the visual politics of their era...

In his 1996 book, “True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World,” Anthony Haden-Guest wrote that the painter James Rosenquist possessed, most of the time, a “preternaturally healthy glow, like a hand-colored photograph.” You could say something similar about Mr. Rosenquist’s new memoir, which is an unexpected treat — it’s a ruddy and humble book, lighted from within by the author’s plainspoken, blue-collar charm....