";s:4:"text";s:4432:" Clearly how we consider these images is going to change over time, but I think Wesselmann’s investment in continuing and reinventing that tradition is worth celebrating.’Having started out depicting the entire nude female form, Wesselmann later shifted to disembodied, individual body parts such as the mouth, feet, and breasts. Pop Artist #47. Born on February 23, 1931, he was a leading figure in the Pop Art movement and known for his works in painting female nudes and magnified objects.. Sold for $3,330,500 on 11 May 2011 at Christie’s in New York. Cigarettes dangle from their rocket-red mouths. Then I thought it would be interesting to connect them with a body line… this began the works with interior lines continuing outside the painting" (S.Hunter, 1993, pp.
That was when I understood I was going back to what I had desperately been aiming for in 1959, and I started making abstract three-dimensional images in cut metal.
New York City, United States of America Tom Wesselmann (* 23. From 1949 to 1951 he attended college in Ohio; first at For Wesselmann, 1958 was a pivotal year. Computerized imaging had not yet been developed. „Great American Nudes“, „Sunset Nudes“ oder „Bedroom Paintings“. Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO) exhibited a retrospective in 2005, accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue. 60 x 48 in (152.4 x 121.9 cm). Thomas K. Wassermann was born on February 23, 1931, in Cincinnati. He put in long hours, producing series that included the billboard-sized ‘Landscapes’; theIn the 1980s he began to recreate the lines of quick pen sketches he had made using painted cut-out steel and aluminium. The following year L&M Arts in New York held a major exhibition of works from the 1960s. He also began to draw cartoons about his experiences.After returning to Ohio to complete his degree, Wesselmann pursued his ambition to become a cartoonist by enrolling at the Art Academy of Cincinatti. Roy Lichtenstein. Wesselmann's metal works continued to go through a constant metamorphosis: “Since 1993 I’ve basically been an abstract painter. Two galleries; Maxwell Davidson and Yvon Lambert, jointly showed the Drop-Out series in New York in 2007. He received his diploma in 1959, and was poised to become one of the leading Pop artists of the next decade.Wesselmann also found himself drawn to the work of Together with Jim Dine and Mark Ratliff, Wesselman founded the Judson Gallery in the basement of a church in Greenwich Village, where the first show included three-dimensional works by Two years earlier Wesselmann had met fellow art student Claire Selley, the model for many of his works, who would later become his wife.Wesselmann had a dream about the phrase ‘red, white and blue’, and in 1961 decided to paint a ‘Great American Nude’ — with its echoes of the fabled Great American Dream and Great American Novel — featuring these and other patriotic colours, as well as motifs such as stars and stripes.It would be the first of many canvases that also combined prosaic aspects of American life — advertising and fast food, for example — with references to modern masters such as Matisse, Mondrian and Modigliani. The Independent, August 9. Featured image: Tom Wesselmann - Still Life #28, 1963, via learnodo-newtonic.com. Andy Warhol. experimenting with In 1964 Ben Birillo, an artist and business partner of gallery owner Paul Bianchini, contacted Wesselmann and other Pop artists with the goal of organizing Beginning in 1965, Wesselmann made several studies for seascapes in His Smokers continued to change: he introduced the hand, with polished fingernails sparkling in the smoke.In 1978 Wesselmann started work on a new series of Bedroom Paintings. This is what happened: in 1984 I started making steel and aluminum cut-out figures... One day I got muddled up with the remnants and I was struck by the infinite variety of abstract possibilities.