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Mel Ramos

Superman at the Supermarket

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  • kolektiv

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  • 96 stron
  • 4 godziny czytania

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In the early 1960s, Mel Ramos (born 1935), one of the first artists to embrace Pop art, abandoned Abstract Expressionism and began to produce the work for which he is best glossy, flat paintings of idealized, voluptuous female nudes emerging from banana peels, lounging on top of cigars or caressing bottles of ketchup. Taking advertising’s enduring maxim "sex sells" to its most extreme ends, Ramos poses the nude female figure in erotic, occasionally even vulgar, positions on top of the most banal consumer goods. Beauty queens, martini glasses, nude Hollywood starlets and hamburgers are given equal attention in Ramos’ artistic universe; if Ramos has been criticized for commodifying the female form it must also be acknowledged that he eroticizes the commodity. Mel Superman at the Supermarket is a homage to Ramos, published in celebration of his 80th birthday.

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Mel Ramos, kolektiv

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Tytuł
Mel Ramos
Podtytuł
Superman at the Supermarket
Język
angielski
Autorzy
kolektiv
Wydawca
Kerber
Rok wydania
2016
Oprawa
twarda
Liczba stron
96
ISBN10
3735601669
ISBN13
9783735601667
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Ocena
5 z 5
Opis
In the early 1960s, Mel Ramos (born 1935), one of the first artists to embrace Pop art, abandoned Abstract Expressionism and began to produce the work for which he is best glossy, flat paintings of idealized, voluptuous female nudes emerging from banana peels, lounging on top of cigars or caressing bottles of ketchup. Taking advertising’s enduring maxim "sex sells" to its most extreme ends, Ramos poses the nude female figure in erotic, occasionally even vulgar, positions on top of the most banal consumer goods. Beauty queens, martini glasses, nude Hollywood starlets and hamburgers are given equal attention in Ramos’ artistic universe; if Ramos has been criticized for commodifying the female form it must also be acknowledged that he eroticizes the commodity. Mel Superman at the Supermarket is a homage to Ramos, published in celebration of his 80th birthday.