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Mel RamosBanana Split2000
2000
$6,225.36
£4,687.07
€5,266
CA$8,591.93
A$9,624.86
CHF 5,015.43
MX$117,403.41
NOK 63,734.59
SEK 60,097.18
DKK 40,090.06
About the Item
Nobody depicted Americana quite like Mel Ramos: he is at once insolent and ecstatic in the face of this raging consumerist culture. He synthetizes artefacts with nubile women that proliferated in advertising and populated his imagination.
»I’ve painted male portraits, but the main point is true, I’m interested in the female figure. Why is that? What can I say to that? I love women; I’m a healthy, male American. And women are objects of desire for me. That’s the truth.« Mel Ramos
signed lower right, numbered lower left: 182/199
- Creator:Mel Ramos (1935, American)
- Creation Year:2000
- Dimensions:Height: 25.32 in (64.3 cm)Width: 29.53 in (75 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Wien, AT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1782212592182
Mel Ramos
Mel Ramos’s provocative, humorous paintings mix idealized nude women with the imagery of popular culture—Coca Cola bottles, movie posters, and the like. A prolific artist from his emergence in the 1960s onward, Ramos has often based his nudes on the female celebrities of the day, from Marilyn Monroe to Scarlett Johansson. His style references the sensuality and glossy flatness of pin-ups and Playboy spreads and has drawn the ire of feminists and art critics alike, despite Ramos’s assertion that his works are “apolitical”. Though clearly aligned with Pop art in his appropriation of imagery from mass media and consumer products, Ramos calls his practice rooted in Surrealism and its emphasis on “absurd conjunctions”—in his case, a beautiful nude woman emerging from a Snickers wrapper or lounging seductively in a banana split.
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