James Rosenquist President Elect Analysis

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The painting by the American artist James Rosenquist titled “President Elect” got my attention as a prominent example of post-modernism by several reasons. First of all, it is important to denote that this artist was obsessed by the promotion of political and social figures in the media. In his board style painting “President Elect”, he utilizes combines street publicity images with political aspects by delineating John F. Kennedy's grinning face close by common American middle class items of consumerism of those times. In order to be more specific, a yellow Chevrolet and a cut of cake from an advertising image. Rosenquist made the arrangement utilizing pictures cut from their unique setting that he adjusted to fit a fantastic scale in a photograph

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