Untitled
1998
Artist
- James Rosenquist, American, 1933-
- Born: Grand Forks, ND
- Work Locations: New York, Florida
Object
painting
Medium
oil on canvas Top 100
Accession Number
2001.847
Credit Line
Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, fractional and promised gift to the Denver Art Museum
James Rosenquist (American). Untitled. 1998. oil on canvas Top 100. Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, fractional and promised gift to the Denver Art Museum. 2001.847.
Dimensions
height: 36 in, 91.4400 cm; width: 40 in, 101.6000 cm
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Collection
Modern and Contemporary Art
James Rosenquist’s embrace of crass commercialism, advertising kitsch, and billboard aesthetics placed him at the forefront of the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. Over the years his style has transformed multiple times, but certain characteristics remain fairly constant including pop imagery, fragmentation, shifting scales, and ambiguous spatial relationships.
In Rosenquist's billboard-sized montage paintings, disparate and contradictory images collide. The viewer tries in vain to decipher the ambiguous visual references into a coherent narrative, yet the work refuses to produce meaning — it revels in postmodern anarchy. It is this ambiguity that makes his work both frustrating and alluring.
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