Robert Rooney
I have always preferred to work from secondary sources, particularly mass-media ones, rather than paint or draw from the actual subject. Robert Rooney 1986
The sources for Rooney's highly regarded 1960s abstract paintings were breakfast cereal cut-outs and other found material such as knitting patterns. His work changed considerably over the years but the one constant, as Charles Green pointed out in 2000, is a 'love affair with the legible signs of nomadic suburbia (logos, trademarks, street signs).'
From the 1990s Rooney's hand-painted acrylic pictures have been based on illustrations in esoteric children's books. More recently he has been concerned with artworks made by children themselves, though it is not his aim to draw or paint like a child.
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