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James Rosenquist with his mother and an early creation from his sign-painting days in Minnesota, 1954

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[James Rosenquist with his mother and an early creation from his sign-painting days in Minnesota, 1954.]

Wrote Deborah Solomon in the New York Times:

There's a wonderful photograph [above] that attests to Rosenquist's early love of road signs.

It was taken outdoors, on an empty street in Minneapolis.

The artist, then a tall, lanky man around 21, and his proud mom stand side by side, looking upward.

Above them looms a giant billboard for Coca-Cola, one of the first Rosenquist ever painted.

It is a genuinely captivating work, a roadside Magritte in which various unrelated objects (an arrow, a shapely glass of soda, a fashionable woman in a hat and gloves) float dreamily against a cloud-laced sky.

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The Things — Donald Hall

 

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Anatomical Hello Kitty

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A 2009 creation by Medicom Toy.

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