Picture "Donut Doll" (2018)
Picture "Donut Doll" (2018)
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limited, 300 copies | numbered | signed | colour lithograph on handmade paper | framed | size 70 x 90 cm
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Picture "Donut Doll" (2018)
Original colour lithograph in 33 colours, 2018. Edition of 300 copies on handmade paper, of which 1/300 to 200/300 are numbered and signed by the artist. The remaining copies were stamped by the estate. Motif size 46 x 64 cm. Sheet size 59.5 x 81 cm. Size in frame 70 x 90 cm as shown.
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About Mel Ramos
1935-2018, American pop artist
He was one of the great painters of American Pop Art. Mel Ramos was born on 24 July 1935 in Sacramento, California. He became famous for his pin-up girls, which adorned famous brand-name articles.
The Pop artist studied art at Sacramento College. At the beginning of the 1960s, Ramos began to produce series of pictures with motifs borrowed from comic strips and strikingly bright colours.
From 1965 onwards, he produced the works that later became his trademark: He combined naked beauties from American magazines with well-known objects from the world of commodities. From this, he developed his own iconography, characterised by the over-emphasised nude figure standing out against the rearranged background.
"I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humour. Either you understand it or not." At times, his works were regarded as the epitome of bad taste, and there were accusations of sexism. From 1966-1997, Mel Ramos taught as a professor of painting at California State University, Hayward.
Today, Mel Ramos is compared to Warhol, Lichtenstein and Wesselmann. His works have been presented in numerous exhibitions and can be found in the most important collections of modern art.
Also, In Germany, his works are part of well-known museums and collections. "The fact that Mel Ramos has meanwhile risen again like a phoenix from the ashes of aesthetic dislocation and is in hot demand hardly needs to be mentioned," stated a German Newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2011. Ramos' works are collected worldwide.
Mel Ramos passed away on 14 October 2018 in his hometown Oakland/California.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy, among others.
In the early 1950s, a movement took over the cultural scene. Young artists from the U.S. and the UK independently broke with all traditions of artistic creativity, giving rise to a new art movement in modern art.
In the U.S., Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and James Rosenquist who were seeking their themes in the world of advertising and comics, in star cult and anonymous urban culture. With bright colours, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective, they created new provocative works. Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi became pioneers of Pop Art in England through the famous "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. In the 1960s, they were followed by David Hockney, Allan Jones, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier.