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Mixed Media, Drawing, collage, transfer with graphite and wash. Signed and Dated and Titled. Book and Pointer for the Fast Student (1977) by James Rosenquist is a mixed media work combining drawing, collage, transfer, graphite, and wash across a 22 x 44 inch composition. The piece evokes a visual metaphor for accelerated learning and fragmented knowledge. A large torn "book" page dominates the center, with a sharpened wooden stick—possibly the titular "pointer"—stretching diagonally across the paper. Abstract fan shapes radiate outward in black ink and textured materials, some splattered with ink blots, hinting at dynamic motion or intellectual chaos. Rosenquist’s blend of conceptual symbolism and pop sensibility challenges conventional perceptions of education and cognition. Signed, dated, and titled in the lower margins.
Book and Pointer for the fast Student, 1977
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Mixed Media, Drawing, collage, transfer with graphite and wash. Signed and Dated and Titled. Book and Pointer for the Fast Student (1977) by James Rosenquist is a mixed media work combining drawing, collage, transfer, graphite, and wash across a 22 x 44 inch composition. The piece evokes a visual metaphor for accelerated learning and fragmented knowledge. A large torn "book" page dominates the center, with a sharpened wooden stick—possibly the titular "pointer"—stretching diagonally across the paper. Abstract fan shapes radiate outward in black ink and textured materials, some splattered with ink blots, hinting at dynamic motion or intellectual chaos. Rosenquist’s blend of conceptual symbolism and pop sensibility challenges conventional perceptions of education and cognition. Signed, dated, and titled in the lower margins.
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What is pop-art?
Pop Art is an art movement that began in Britain in 1955 and in the late 1950s in the U.S. It challenged traditional fine arts by incorporating imagery from popular culture, such as news, advertising, and comic books. Pop Art often isolates and recontextualizes materials, combining them with unrelated elements. The movement is more about the attitudes and ideas that inspired it than the specific art itself. Pop Art is seen as a reaction against the dominant ideas of Abstract Expressionism, bringing everyday consumer culture into the realm of fine art.
