Available Colors: Multi
Available Sizes:
Camilla
Serigraph: *Serigraph Signed in the plate *Year 1989 *Edition: 161 Mel
Ramos (born July 24, 1935) is a U.S. figurative painter, specializing
most often in the art nude, whose work incorporates elements of realist
and abstract art. Born in Sacramento, California, he gained his
popularity as part of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. Ramos is "best
known for his paintings of superheroes and voluptuous female nudes
emerging from cornstalks or Chiquita bananas, popping up from candy
wrappers or lounging in martini glasses". He is also a retired
university art professor. Mel Ramos received his first important
recognition in the early 1960s; since 1959 he has participated in more
than 120 group shows. Along with Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, he
was one of the first artists to do paintings of images from comic books,
and works of the three were exhibited together at the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art in 1963. Along with Claes Oldenburg, James
Rosenquist, Tom Wesselman and Wayne Thiebaud, Ramos produced art works
that celebrated aspects ofpopular culture as represented in mass media.
His paintings have been shown in major exhibitions of Pop art in the
U.S. and in Europe, and reproduced in books, catalogs, and periodicals
throughout the world. In 2009 Mel Ramos was part of the first Portuguese
American bilingual art book and exhibit in California "Ashes to Life a
Portuguese American Story in Art" with fellow artists Nathan Oliveira,
John Mattos and Joao de Brito. Ramos has been represented by the Louis
K. Meisel Gallery since 1971. A major exhibition of his work was held at
the Albertina in Vienna in 2011. A retrospective of over 50 years of
his work opened at the Crocker Art Museum in his hometown of Sacramento
on June 2, 2012. This show is "the first major exhibition of his work in
his hometown", and his first American retrospective in 35 years.
No comments:
Post a Comment