What images did James Rosenquist place together in the 51-panel painting F-111?

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Five Andy Warhol paintings of Campbell's soup cans, each labeled with a different soup variety, displayed in a row on a white wall at Museumsquartier in Vienna. — Pop art *Campbell's Soup Cans*, polymer paint on canvas by Andy Warhol, 1962; a selection of five on display in the Museumsquartier, Vienna.

In his monumental 51-panel painting F-111 (1965), James Rosenquist created a large-scale, collagelike amalgamation of imagery that serves as a political commentary on the Vietnam War.

The work is notable for juxtaposing close-up views of the titular military aircraft—the F-111 fighter-bomber—with the image of an atomic explosion. By placing these American consumer and military goods against such a backdrop, Rosenquist utilized his signature style of shifting scales and disparate motifs to critique the era's consumer abundance and military involvement.12