Over his long career, artist James Rosenquist (1933-2017) has created an important body of works that explore new boundaries in printmaking. The artist's first residency at Graphicstudio was in 1971, and he created thirty-seven works in collaboration with the atelier in his lifetime.
Music School
In Music School, Rosenquist employs tripartite imagery taking this compositional format through its paces by combining and reshuffling certain images. This lithograph is made up of two joined sheets, with stylized rain on a car roof above and the wings of a bird stretched beyond a square on white below.
THE KABUKI BLUSHES, CROSSHATCH AND MUTATION, FLOWERS AND FEMALES, SHRIEK, & SISTER SHRIEKS
In the 1980s, Rosenquist created a series of large scale mixed media prints including The Kabuki Blushes, Crosshatch and Mutation, Flowers and Females, Shriek, and Sister Shrieks. These prints set a textured, loose brushwork of painting against a smooth, tight lithographic surface. Rosenquist hand-painted images of flowers onto Plexiglas plates to make monoprints, and then created lithographic prints from his airbrushed images of women's faces. Finally, the lithographs were slashed into slivers and collaged onto the monoprints. The contrasting techniques and the clashing imagery of flowers and faces create high drama in these big, vibrantly colored prints.
Artist's Site: jamesrosenquiststudio.com
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