Polished aluminium cast with black pedestal; 210 x 100 x 80 cm<\/p>\n
2011<\/p>\n
edition of 8<\/p>\n
Like many other Pop Art artists, Ramos had intended to become a graphic designer in advertising before he decided to study art. Between 1954 and 1958 he studied at the Sacramento City College, the San Jos\u00e9 State College and the Sacramento State College. From 1958 he taught at various institutions including the Sacramento State College, the Arizona State University and the California State University.<\/p>\n
A student of Wayne Thiebaud, Mel Ramos was a follower of the \u2018Bay Figurative School\u2019, a movement, which distanced itself from abstract Expressionism \u2013 the predominant genre in the United States during the 1950s. From 1961 onwards, Ramos started to use the imagery of American comics as a source of inspiration. But besides the comic book characters, naked female bodies dominate his oeuvre. His creations satisfy male fantasies, but at the same time his flawless sexual objects appear artificial and absurd. He created images with lascivious pin-up girls placed on commodities in order to mimic the advertising industry’s methods to capitalize on the \u2018sex sells\u2019-slogan. Mel Ramos belongs to the original group of American Pop Art artists together with Warhol, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg, but his explicit display of eroticism adds a whole new facet to Pop Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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