| Mel Ramos |
Mel Ramos (Sacramento, USA, 24 June 1935) is one of the few Pop artists who has made an incisive contribution, also in terms of popularity, to this current, despite not being part of the "first wave" group which included Warhol and Rauschenberg.
This is due in large part to the fact that his works are extremely attractive, immediate and captivating, thanks to his technical virtuosity and a skill in the use of his medium, rare even in painters who, more than Ramos, have achieved fame and praise. Ramos demonstrates a keen awareness of this peculiarity, carrying out his aesthetic quest under the banner of a certain formal complacency. Ramos’ career began with realist experiments at the end of the Fifties, and developed with the pictorial re-elaboration of comic book heroes such as Flash Gordon, Wonder Woman and Captain Midnight of the early Sixties, up to the famous and sensual Pin Ups with which his most famous image is associated. Over the years, Ramos has created a vast iconography of beauty queens, who display their bodies together with cult objects of the advertising world, such as the Colgate toothpaste tube, the Chiquita banana or the Philip Morris cigarettes, carrying on his tested and winning formula until the Nineties. |
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