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Mel RamosChic, from 11 Pop Artists Vol. I1965
1965
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Mel Ramos
Chic, from 11 Pop Artists Vol. I
1965
Screenprint
24 x 20 in.
11/200
Pencil signed and numbered
This print is included in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection.
Mel Ramos (American, 1935-2018)
Birth Place: Sacramento, CA USA
Mel Ramos was an American figurative painter whose nudes melded together pop art, pinup, and surrealist aesthetics. Born and raised in Northern California, Ramos never strayed far from the Bay Area besides brief residencies at Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin. His work became known during the pop art movement of the 1960s. The slick-looking oil paintings of Ramos often featured female nudes, drawn provocatively and surrealistically climbing from martini glasses or being unpeeled from a Chiquita banana. 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.
These paintings transcended traditional pinup art by bringing a post-modern sensibility to Ramos’ subjects. Through the juxtaposition of commercial images alongside 20th-century sexuality, Ramos is able to give a winking nod to the American monoculture of the 1960s and 1970s without fully committing to it. It’s why his work continues to resonate with collectors and institutions to this day. Ramos died in 2018.
Mel Ramos was an American painter whose female nudes blur the elements of both realist and abstract art. Principally known from his emergence in the pop art movement of the 1960s, Ramos's work is easily recognizable because of its cheeky humor and saturated colors. Indeed, many of Ramos oil paintings wouldn’t look out of place on a cereal box or billboard in an alternate dimension.
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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