Mel Ramos: Exceptional Editions

Wien: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2015. Hardcover. New in shrinkwrap. Purple cut-out boards revealing color-illustration. 72 pp. Color illustrations. Exceptional Editions complements and continues the catalogue of works published in 2013 by Verlag Moderner Kunst Mel Ramos. Exhibitional Prints. It includes all special editions by Ramos ; sculptures, works on enamel, backlit frames and bas-relief works ; but also the prints published since 2013. Like his fellow painters Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, US artist Mel Ramos takes on motifs from mass media and advertising. Ramos is Pop Art artist, painter of pin-up girls, a representative of abstract Expressionism and has even been named the quintessential American figurative painter. In the early 1960s, he attracted attention with painted appropriations of Comic-book heroes such as Batman and Superman, and with his popular subjects he occupies a firm place in the highest echelons of the international Pop Art movement. In the mid-1960s, he started incorporating pin-ups into his paintings, which he combines in a drastic manner with consumer products. Born 1935 in Sacramento, California he parodies trivial advertising strategies and is one of the last living great artists of the American Pop Art movement. -FirstSearch.