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Tom WesselmannBeautiful Bedroom Kate1998
1998
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Beautiful Bedroom Kate. Original color silkscreen on Museum Board, 1998. Edition of 90 signed and numbered impressions on Museum Board.
Tom Wesselmann is one of the biggest American pop artists today. Even he did not like being labeled a pop artist, it is hard to imagine that his artworks featuring consumer goods and assorted American icons would be considered anything but pop art. At first he was a follower of abstract expressionism, but later switched to figurative art. In the late ‘50s he produced a series of small format collages, which became the basis for his future nudes and still life. In 1963 he married Claire Selley, his most faithful model from the series 'Great American Nude', and other nudes. In his search for creative styles he began to produce three-dimensional works with the technique of assemblage, using everyday objects such as telephones and televisions. In the 'Still Life' series he used advertising techniques and complemented traditional still life with mass consumption items taken directly from ads. In the ‘80s he began to work with metals and produced original works with a special laser. Over the next two decades he returned to large formats and the theme of the nude from the ‘60s, rounding off his career with The 'Sunset Nude' series, inspired by the works of Matisse. Tom Wesselmann went down in history as one of the greatest representatives of pop art due to his exciting commercial images, his aggressive intervention in three dimensions, his choice of trivial motifs, their monumentalization, the use of stereotypes as a basis for his work and the choice of strong colors. Wesselmann’s aesthetic usage of everyday objects was done not in criticism of American consumerism and culture, but as a way to render Classical genres modern so as to explore the gap between art and contemporary life. This picture has an interesting frame - an oval shape that grants access to a private moment, in which the viewer is given the pleasure of peeping through a keyhole or a perforation in the wall. Through this shape we can see every element of Wesselmann's iconography: a girl with missing eyes and saturated lips, with prominent intimate parts of the body, beautiful and luxuriant enjoying in her relaxed state, surrounding with still life objects.
- Creator:Tom Wesselmann (1931 - 2004, American)
- Creation Year:1998
- Dimensions:Height: 31.5 in (80 cm)Width: 53.55 in (136 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Ljubljana, SI
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Tom Wesselmann
Thomas K. Wesselmann (February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture. Born on February 23, 1931, in Cincinnati, Ohio, cartoonist and collagist Tom Wesselmann eventually moved to New York City to become one of the founding figures of the Pop Art movement, making waves with his "Great American Nude" series. He later became well known for his huge canvas paintings of household objects as well as his printmaking and abstract work. He died on December 17, 2004.
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