Vienna — Until you remember that you’re outside the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the pin-up, pop art poster might throw you. For those who know, and those who don’t, it isn’t a Calvin Klein type ad for Del Monte Catsup. It’s an example of the work of California-born pop artist Mel Ramos. His show is called Girls, Candies and Comics. Inside are many more pieces, familiar no doubt to his followers. Here’s the Wikipedia skinny on Ramos, 76. “Along with other artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and James Rosenquist, Ramos produced art works that celebrated aspects of popular culture as represented in mass media. His paintings have been shown in major exhibitions of Pop Art in the U.S. and in Europe, and reproduced in books, catalogs, and periodicals throughout the world.” Girls, Candies and Comics needs translation
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Vienna — Until you remember that you’re outside the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the pin-up, pop art poster might throw you. For those who know, and those who don’t, it isn’t a Calvin Klein type ad for Del Monte Catsup. It’s an example of the work of California-born pop artist Mel Ramos. His show is called Girls, Candies and Comics. Inside are many more pieces, familiar no doubt to his followers. Here’s the Wikipedia skinny on Ramos, 76. “Along with other artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and James Rosenquist, Ramos produced art works that celebrated aspects of popular culture as represented in mass media. His paintings have been shown in major exhibitions of Pop Art in the U.S. and in Europe, and reproduced in books, catalogs, and periodicals throughout the world.” 