James Rosenquist, Pop Artist Whose Work Was Influenced By Advertising, Has Died At 83

Rosenquist, who had experience (and a day job) as a painter of billboards, “painted by hand in a lucidly simplified realistic style, [but] the juxtapositions of images remain mysterious. The paintings could be viewed both as critiques of modern consumerism and as glimpses into the collective American consciousness.”