Tom Wesselmann

Blonde on Blanket, 1985/86, Alkyd oil on cut-out Steel, nude, Pop Art

Suzy Smith is a Wyoming native, who has lived in Albuquerque, NM, for the past 20 years. She paints women from a female perspective, painting the uniquely American culture she grew u...

Title: Garden of Earthly Delights Artist: TheDirtyFabulous Media: Oil on metal with polyurethane varnish Size: 60 x 40 inches / 153 x 102cm Year created: 2012-2014 Societies have long employed images that visualize their belief systems or attempt to encapsulate a narrative of our human destiny. This work follows in that tradition. The uppermost vignette is a silhouette from the nursery rhyme “Jack be nimble”, a children’s rhyme that refers to a 19th century game and a form of fortune telling. In Roman mythology Parcae (plural) were the personifications of fate. They are used in this painting as bookend figures on either side of a cosmic machine that answers questions of fate. Three vintage light bulbs labeled “yes”, “maybe” and “no” sit atop the clock – like machine and illuminate answers to humanity’s eternal questions. At the top of the composition are several re- configured tarot / divination cards belonging to an anonymous person circa 1930’s. The cards here are labeled; satisfaction dark woman, jealousy, dark man and betrayal. The grouping of these four cards refers to both positive and negative potentials concerning fate and offer clues to the viewer on a number of possible scenarios it could describe. The lower portion of the picture contains two silhouetted vignettes on either side of a central image of stars and planets against a dark void. The left image is of two children in a small wagon being pulled by a beetle. This is a reference to Egyptian mythology and the sun god Khepri. who personifies birth / rebirth. Khepri is portrayed as a beetle that pushes the sun across the sky. Here the young innocents...

A painting by Tom Wesselmann. "Bedroom Breast" is an oil on cut-out aluminum painting executed in a lush palette primarily of blues, turquoise, peach, pi...

Beautiful ca. 1970s Pop Art painting of a reclining nude woman based on Tom Wesselmann's 1968 screenprint, Nude with Still Life. Oil on canvas, 30...

This is a one of a kind original oil and acrylic painting depicting Rodin's "The Thinker", by Southern California artist, Gina Palmerin. Its dimensions ...

Vadym Mykhalchuk "Odessa.Grekivka.Masha."