Word: rosenquist
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...another. Today, they are the new bandwagon; and since the avant-garde public is so hungry for more and more avant, the pop artists are in the chips. Wesselmann can sell a collage for $2,500; a Claes Oldenburg Floorburger is priced at $2,000; and JarLes Rosenquist can fetch as much as $7,500 for a painting...
...James Rosenquist, 29, used to paint billboards, where he found that "sometimes things get so close that they disappear, and only the strength of the arabesque is left." In Lines, for instance, the background is a woman's face over which swirl images that might be in her mind. Rosenquist uses space "to bring about mystery," and however billboardlike his technique, the mystery is there...
...Kooning. Last week Janis was the cause of a good deal of speculation with his big new show of "pop art." Instead of the masters of abstractionism, he has gooey cakes of painted plaster by Claes Oldenburg, blown-up comic strips by Roy Lichtenstein, rearranged billboards by James Rosenquist, portraits of cans of soup by Andy Warhol. Janis has apparently spotted a new bandwagon-but he did not discover...