James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist (November 29, 1933 – March 31, 2017) was an American player and one of the proponents of the pop art movement. Drawing from his background in force in sign painting, Rosenquist's pieces often explored the role of advertising and consumer culture in art and society, utilizing techniques he scholarly making personal ad art to depict popular cultural icons and mundane ordinary objects. While his works have often been compared to those from supplementary key figures of the pop art movement, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist's pieces were unique in the way that they often employed elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to make more noticeable the overwhelming flora and fauna of ads. He was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.