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Description: | This picture is an idealized image of the female figure, and reflects the bold advertising techniques that Ramos employs in his works. It forces the viewer to question the notion of decency, and to consider the idea that some might see the image as pornographic. After graduating from Sacramento State College with an MA in Fine Art, Ramos began a series of garishly coloured super-heroes taken from comic strips using a thick oleaginous pigment. In 1963 he was first included in a collective exhibition in 'Pop goes East' at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston. In 1964 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery, new york. In 1965 he developed a specific kind of Pop Art iconography by combining nude pin-up girls from American magazines and advertisements with branded products. This later became his trademark style, and some of hi most famous pieces show such women draped over various consumer products.
Print of a naked girl wearing a necklace sat on a large burger in a bun. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Pop art Fine arts Food Lithographs Women Works on paper Pop Collection Prints Gender roles | Temporal: | 1965
20th century (1900-1999) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | RAMOS; Mel (1935 -) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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