Art Commentary. The F-111 by Rosenquist.

Art Commentary. The F-111 by Rosenquist.

The lethal but astounding technology of F-111 fighter jet, stretching the full length of the work - from the deeply treaded tyre and the crater-like cake decorated with its ready-mix nutrients, past the diabolically sweet childish face of a little girl in a hair dryer shaped like the nose-cone of a jet and on to a rolling sea of canned-orange spaghetti. The content of Rosenquist’s “F-111” reflects on the American society who was on a suicidal course with its mindless consumerism and military-industrial power.
“It summed up Rosenquist’s vision of America as a flawed and self destructive Eden, a paradise based on exaggerated and obsessive consumption of images and things,” As Robert Hughes put it.
F-111 was Rosenquist’s personal reaction to the ideas of mass media and communication. The painting is overloaded with a discharge of images, which reflects on the mindless consumerism and th...