Mel Ramos More Art

Vintage 1965 announcement card announcing the forthcoming publication of Mel Ramos' famed Virna Burger screen prints at Bianchini Gallery, New York November 2nd to November 23rd, 1965. A very cool frame piece. Offset print on smooth glossy wove paper 9 x 6 inches Very good condition for its age; stamped "artist's file" on front side; contains some light fading and handling marks commensurate with age & medium Published by Bianchini Gallery About 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 from Marilyn Monroe to Scarlett Johansson and beyond. 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...