Pencil signed and numbered edition 5/29James RosenquistCrosshatch and Mutation, 1986Mixed MediaUnique WorkSize : 51.5 x 0 x 41.5 in. framed: Approx: 65.5" x 55.5"In the 1980s, Rosenquist created a series of large scale mixed media prints including The Kabuki Blushes, Crosshatch and Mutation, Flowers and Females, Shriek, and Sister Shrieks. These prints set a textured, loose brushwork of painting against a smooth, tight lithographic surface. Rosenquist hand-painted images of flowers onto Plexiglas plates to make monoprints, and then created lithographic prints from his airbrushed images of women's faces. Finally, the lithographs were slashed into slivers and collaged onto the monoprints. The contrasting techniques and the clashing imagery of flowers and faces create high drama in these big, vibrantly colored prints.

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