Porcelain plate "Nasturtium Salad" (1984)
Porcelain plate "Nasturtium Salad" (1984)
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porcelain | Ø 21 cm | signed | shipped in gift box
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Porcelain plate "Nasturtium Salad" (1984)
Plate made of fine porcelain featuring a motif from the work "Nasturtium Salad" by James Rosenquist, realised in an exclusive collaboration between the estate of the artist James Rosenquist and Ligne Blanche Paris. © 2021 James Rosenquist Inc. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Diameter 21 cm, signed on the back. In an elegant gift box.
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.
In the early 1950s, a movement took over the cultural scene. Young artists from the US and the UK - completely independently of each other - severed their ties with all the traditions of artistic creativity and helped modernity to achieve a new art movement.
In the US there were Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann and James Rosenquist who were seeking their themes in the world of advertising and comics, in star cult and anonymous urban culture. With flash colouring, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective they created new provocative works. thanks to the famous exhibition "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi are to be considered as the true pioneers of Pop Art in England. In the 1960s, they were followed by David Hockney, Allan Jones, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier.
Ceramic product made of kaolin, quartz and feldspar.
Porcelain is formed by turning or pressing and figurative objects are cast. Complex objects have to be cast in separated steps and sections and then "assembled". After the moulding, the pieces are dried and "annealed" at about 900 °C. Next, the glaze will be applied and fired at temperatures between 1,240 °C and 1,445 °C. In renowned manufactures, the porcelain is painted by hand whereby each colour has to be fired individually and in compliance with narrow temperature tolerances.
Porcelain was invented in China and became widespread in Europe from the 16th century onwards. The first European porcelain factory was founded in Meissen, Germany in 1710.
Other famous European porcelain factories include Fürstenberg, Höchst, Schwarzburger Werkstätten, Lladró, Nymphenburg, KPM, Augarten, Sèvres, Limoges, Royal Copenhagen, Worcester. Individual factories label their products with their personal porcelain stamps so that for the collecter it is easy to identify their origin.