Picture "The Sense of Smell", unframed
Picture "The Sense of Smell", unframed
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limited, 5,000 copies | numbered | signed | lithograph | size approx. 21 x 28 cm
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Picture "The Sense of Smell", unframed
James (Jim) Rosenquist contributed a print to the cycle "The Five Senses" initiated by the 'Club of 5000', which documents the entire diversity and emotional expressiveness of Pop Art.
Original photolithograph in four colours, signed and numbered on the back. Limited edition of 5,000 copies. Size 21 x 28 cm.
About James Rosenquist
1933-2017
James Rosenquist was a leading Pop artist from the United States. He was born in 1933 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and studied painting at the Minneapolis Art Institute and the University of Minnesota. He attended the same drawing class as Robert Indiana. Later he even taught at Yale University.
His early professional work as a painter of advertising posters influenced his monumental paintings and prints. Later he shifted from commercial art and pop culture to creating montage-like artworks that were often surrealistic and close to old painting techniques. When he moved to New York in the late 1950s, he met other artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns. They inspired him to work on more abstract themes.
His works are exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the Tate Gallery in London.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.