Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThough painted by hand in a lucidly simplified realistic style, the juxtapositions of images remain mysterious. Mr. Rosenquist meant to sell the painting as separate panels, but the collector Robert Scull bought it whole and kept it that way. “There was Bill de Kooning, Franz Kline,” Mr. Rosenquist told The Times in 2003. “Much of the aesthetic of my work comes from doing commercial art,” Mr. Rosenquist said. In 2009, Mr. Rosenquist published an autobiography, “Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art,” written with David Dalton.

Source: New York Times April 01, 2017 17:50 UTC