Author: Ramos, Mel (1935 -2018)
Title: The Joker. Mel Ramos Exhibition Poster
Description: San Francisco: Modernism, 1986. Poster. 81 x 49cm.. Following the Mel Ramos retrospective that traveled across seven major European museums in 2010-2011 to celebrate Ramos’s 75th birthday and on the occasion of Batman’s 75th birthday this year, it seems only fitting that Magnolia Editions revisit the iconic superhero paintings that started Ramos on the road to becoming one of Pop Art’s most recognizable figures. As curator Louis K. Meisel writes, “In mid-1961, at the beginning of what would be called ‘Pop Art,’ Mel Ramos produced what we would consider his first true mature image. That very well-known painting is Superman, and it displays a style and technique which Ramos has been identified with ever since. Superman [-] was the first true Pop painting that the artist produced. Followed by Batman, these paintings were straight out of the comic books, and in every way related to the commercial images of Andy Warhol, the cartoons of Roy Lichtenstein, and the word paintings of Ed Ruscha, not to mention the few others all hitting stride in 1961 and 1962.”. .
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Title: The Joker. Mel Ramos Exhibition Poster
Description: San Francisco: Modernism, 1986. Poster. 81 x 49cm.. Following the Mel Ramos retrospective that traveled across seven major European museums in 2010-2011 to celebrate Ramos’s 75th birthday and on the occasion of Batman’s 75th birthday this year, it seems only fitting that Magnolia Editions revisit the iconic superhero paintings that started Ramos on the road to becoming one of Pop Art’s most recognizable figures. As curator Louis K. Meisel writes, “In mid-1961, at the beginning of what would be called ‘Pop Art,’ Mel Ramos produced what we would consider his first true mature image. That very well-known painting is Superman, and it displays a style and technique which Ramos has been identified with ever since. Superman [-] was the first true Pop painting that the artist produced. Followed by Batman, these paintings were straight out of the comic books, and in every way related to the commercial images of Andy Warhol, the cartoons of Roy Lichtenstein, and the word paintings of Ed Ruscha, not to mention the few others all hitting stride in 1961 and 1962.”. .
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Price: US$ 125.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 51-5619
- Book number: 51-5619
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