James Rosenquist, a former billboard painter who helped pioneer 1960s pop art by blending advertising images into psychedelic kaleidoscopes, died Friday in New York following an illness, his studio confirmed. He was age 83. Like Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg, he was among the first artists to create museum-worthy art using the visual glossary of a grocery store, incorporating images of oh-so-perfect foods and airbrushed people in...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 01, 2017 21:00 UTC