JAMES ROSENQUIST Original SARAJEVO XIV WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES 1984 Lithograph Poster
Artist: JAMES ROSENQUIST (American, 1933 - 2017)
Title: "Ice Point" the Official Commemorative Poster for the Sarajevo XIV Winter Olympic Games 1984, 1983
Medium: Color Lithograph printed offset
Edition: 1000
Size: 36 x 24 inches
Printer: Svjetlost Publishing House, Sarajevo
Publisher: Organizing Committee of the XIVth Olympic Winter Games Sarajevo 1984 Yugoslavia, December 1983
Reference: Olympic Winter Games Posters from Chamonix 1924 to Sochi 2014, pages 32-28. Also Official guide: XIV Olympic Winter Games, Yugoslavia – Sarajevo, Organizing Committee of the 14th Olympic Winter Games, Belgrade: Agencija Borba, 1984, p. 32.
Notes: In collaboration with the Visconti art - Lazo Vujić gallery in Vienna and the Svjetlost publishing house in Sarajevo, the OCOG [Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games] published a Sport and Art album containing 16 works by well-known artists reinterpreting the Olympic ideals. The works were printed as posters via offset lithography. The album was first presented at the 14th Basel International Art Fair
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About the Artist: James Rosenquist (November 29, 1933 – March 31, 2017) was an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop art movement. Drawing from his background working in sign painting, Rosenquist’s pieces often explored the role of advertising and consumer culture in art and society, utilizing techniques he learned making commercial art to depict popular cultural icons and mundane everyday objects. While his works have often been compared to those from other key figures of the pop art movement, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist’s pieces were unique in the way that they often employed elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to emphasize the overwhelming nature of ads. He was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.