James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist

Born: November 29, 1933
Died: March 31, 2017
in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA

Movies for James Rosenquist...

Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World
Title: Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World
Character: Himself
Released: August 24, 2015
Type: Movie
A visual history of the significance and impact of the Pop Art movement in the Sixties and beyond.
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Title: Masterclass
Character: Self
Released: April 18, 2010
Type: TV
MasterClass is a documentary television series airing on HBO. Each half-hour episode documents the experience of a small group of young artists working with a famous mentor. The series premiered on HBO on April 18, 2010 with opera star Plácido Domingo working with three aspiring young singers. The students in the program are chosen from participants in the Miami-based organization, YoungArts, a program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, which supports emerging artists. The series is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon of the Simon & Goodman Picture Company. The Executive Producer is Lin Arison. In July 2011 the series was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program in 2011.
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Who Gets to Call It Art?
Title: Who Gets to Call It Art?
Character: Himself
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.
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Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Title: Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Character: Self
Released: November 29, 1991
Type: Movie
This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was also one of our great experimental filmmakers and once apparently made Salvador Dali extremely jealous at a screening of his masterpiece, Rose Hobart. In this film we get to hear people like Susan Sontag, Stan Brakhage, and Tony Curtis talk about their friendships with the artist. It turns out that Curtis was quite a collector and he seemed to have a very deep understanding of what Cornell was doing in his work.
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Art in an Age of Mass Culture
Title: Art in an Age of Mass Culture
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Art in an Age of Mass Culture pulls back the curtain and takes a look at the cultural climate surrounding MoMA's now famed exhibition, "High and Low: High Art and Popular Culture". Opening in the fall of 1990, the show placed a spotlight on the rapid merging of consumerism and the artistic avant-garde. Curated by Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik and featuring work from artists such as Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein, "High and Low" ignites conversations of mass culture and our society's ever-changing relationship with the arts.
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Wall Street
Title: Wall Street
Character: Artist at Auction
Released: December 10, 1987
Type: Movie
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
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Roy Lichtenstein
Title: Roy Lichtenstein
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada, and Purism in referring to signs and objects of contemporary society; Lichtenstein argues for distinctions between himself, Warhol, Oldenburg, and others. In his Long Island studio, Lichtenstein works on an elaborate composition; one of his 4 major paintings on the theme "The Artist's Studio."
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Poem Posters
Title: Poem Posters
Character: Self
Released: May 19, 1967
Type: Movie
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Rudy Gernreich, Jonas Mekas and others.
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Title: Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Character: Self
Released: November 28, 1965
Type: Movie
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.