"F-111 points to what the artist has described as “the collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising.” Rosenquist has often cited a keen interest in the phenomenon of peripheral vision as a driving force behind his decision to make a room-scaled painting. Whatever our eye focuses on at any given moment is necessarily influenced by information at the outermost perimeters of our field of vision, which in turn plays a profound, yet often subconscious, role in our sensory perception. For Rosenquist, who first experimented with this concept while making F-111 and continued to do so throughout his career, Claude Monet's Water Lilies was a touchstone." http://www.moma.org/explore... - Adriano