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Mel Ramos, English Edition
Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1953-2015
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Artikel-Nr:
9783735602848
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Thomas Levy
Gewicht:
2324 g
Format:
315x244x33 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In 1963 Mel Ramos, one of the first artists to embrace Pop Art, developed a preference for a tantalizing, seductive visual language. In typical Pop Art colors, beauty queens and nude Hollywood stars are combined with commodities to populate his paintings. In accordance with advertising aesthetics, he placed female bodies in erotic, occasionally vulgar poses on top of consumer goods, thus taking his theme from advertising's enduring slogan, "sex sells."Biography1935 born in Sacramento, CA1953-1958 studied fine arts at Sacramento State College, B.A. 1957, M.A. 1958 1965-1966 Sacramento State University1966 Arizona State University, Tempe1966 California State University, Haywardlives and works in Oakland, CA, and Horta de Sant Joan, Spain
At the beginning of the 1960s, Mel Ramos devoted himself to the central theme in his oeuvre, and developed the visual vocabulary that is so very characteristic for him: naked women adorning oversize advertising articles populate his colorful, two-dimensional oil paintings. Mel Ramos thus works with double entendre, since his works are formulations of an erotic fantasy that represents a fundamental pattern of marketing strategies in advertising. This publication records Mel Ramos´s entire painterly oeuvre, from the first works in the 1950s until today, hence demonstrating his enduring position in Pop Art.