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James Rosenquist —
American
Artist
born on November 29, 1933,
James Rosenquist is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. Rosenquist was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame... (wikipedia)
Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.
I'm the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.
As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.
I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'