Mixed Nuts. Mel Ramos Exhibition poster.
San Francisco: Modernism, 2004. Poster. 81 x 49.5cm....
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.”. Item #51-5628
Price: $125.00