Picture "Five Flavour Fannie (Life Savers)" (2006)
Picture "Five Flavour Fannie (Life Savers)" (2006)
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limited, total 249 copies | numbered | signed | colour lithograph on handmade paper | unframed | size 80 x 112 cm
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Picture "Five Flavour Fannie (Life Savers)" (2006)
Original colour lithograph 2006, edition of 199 copies + 50 A.P. copies on handmade paper, numbered and signed by hand. Unframed. Sheet size 80 x 112 cm.
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.
In the early 1950s, a movement took over the cultural scene. Young artists from the US and the UK - completely independently of each other - severed their ties with all the traditions of artistic creativity and helped modernity to achieve a new art movement.
In the US there were 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 flash colouring, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective they created new provocative works. thanks to the famous exhibition "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi are to be considered as the true pioneers of Pop Art in England. In the 1960s, they were followed by David Hockney, Allan Jones, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier.