Artist James Rosenquist, a leading figure of the 1960s pop art movement known for his room-sized works, has died at the age of 83, his studio said. Rosenquist helped define the genre of color-bursting displays of common objects that was also championed by the likes Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. He had shows in some of the world’s most celebrated museums, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, it said. “Painting is probably much more exciting than advertising,” Rosenquist was quoted as saying by the Museum of Modern Art. One of his more celebrated works is “F-111,’ which is billboard in size and made in 1964 and 1965, during the U.S. war in Vietnam.

Source: Huffington Post April 01, 2017 21:45 UTC