Pop artist Tom Wesselmann died Friday in New York City of complications following heart surgery.
This exhibition of drawings by
Pop Artist Tom Wesselmann, which was originally conceived by Wesselmann and his wife, Claire, before the artist's untimely death in December, 2004.
However, César's iconic Thumb (1966) and Main (1968) simultaneously tie his work to the French artist Martial Raysse and to American
Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, who similarly exaggerated and played with the human figure.
A departure from the flashy red lips and shockingly tan bodies that have become the trademark of American
Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, Monica Sitting Up Against a Wall reimagines a time - honored artistic tradition — the drawing of the female nude.
created between 1959 and 1964, by the late
Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, works that mark a significant point in the artist's career as a leading figure of the Pop art movement, just at the point where he was transitioning from brusque abstraction to an interest in the commodity formats and spatial confines of the canvas.
Ever since the Sidney Janis Gallery closed in 2000, the work of
the pop artist Tom Wesselmann, who died in 2004, has been without representation.
Modern master Henri Matisse was a touchstone for American
Pop artist Tom Wesselmann throughout his career.
Not exact matches
But none of the looks got more attention than makeup
artist Tom Pecheux's
pop of orange and white on the girls» eyes at Derek Lam.
Based on Presley's own words - plus the examinations of
artists like
Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, who obviously looked to the King as a premiere influence - Zimney is examining what Gospel, Soul, R&B, Country / Western and even
Pop Music meant to a Southern white man who grew up dirt poor, practically without a father, and possibly without a future beyond music.
From Op Art to
Pop Art, the show features works by
artists including
Tom Wesselmann, Sigmar Polke, Ed Ruscha and Jean - Michel Basquiat.»
The Sidney Janis Gallery held an early
Pop Art exhibit called the New Realist Exhibition in November 1962, which included works by the American
artists Tom Wesselmann, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, and Andy Warhol; and Europeans such as Arman, Baj, Christo, Yves Klein, Festa, Rotella, Jean Tinguely, and Schifano.
Pop Art and Anselem Kiefer
Artists include Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Andy Warhol,
Tom Wesselmann and others ABMB Hours: Monday - Saturday, December 4 - 9, 9am - 6 pm; Sunday, December 10, 9am - 2 pm Margulies Collection, 591 NW 27 Street, Miami, Wynwood
Works by the American Abstract
Artist group (Stuart Davis, Ilya Bolotowsky, Esphyr Slobodkina, Balcomb Greene, Milton Avery) give twentieth - century abstraction its place in the collection, as do later examples of Surrealism (Kay Sage, George Tooker), Abstract Expressionism (Lee Krasner, Giorgio Cavallon, Morris Graves, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Cleve Gray),
Pop and Op art (Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Robert Indiana,
Tom Wesselman, Jim Dine), Conceptual (Christo, Sol LeWitt), and Photo - Realism (Robert Cottingham).
The
pop up show is organized and curated by the four participating
artists: Keith A. Batten, Tim Ebneth, Joseph Stabilito, and
Tom McGill in cooperation with Gallery at 46 Green Street & 46 Green Street Studios.
She and Marjorie Strider were the only two women
Pop artists included in this exhibition, which also featured Warhol, Lichtenstein, and
Tom Wesselmann.
Beyond
Pop Art: A
Tom Wesselmann Retrospective follows the evolution of the
artist's work through the course of four decades.
This summer the Denver Art Museum will showcase the work of
artist Tom Wesselmann, who is best known for his role in the development of
pop art in the 1960s.
Organized in partnership with the
Tom Wesselmann Estate, the exhibition examines Wesselmann's role as the great innovator of the American
Pop generation and will include a dozen significant works spanning the
artist's career from 1961 - 2004.
Tom Wesselmann is considered one of the major
artists of New York
Pop Art, along with Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.
The most important protagonists in American
Pop Art will be included with large groups of works and single key works of
artists such as: Duane Hanson, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and
Tom Wesselmann.
Organized in collaboration with The Estate of
Tom Wesselmann, the exhibition will present over 30 works produced between 1959 and 1964 — a significant period spanning the
artist's early career and his emergence as a leading figure of
Pop Art.
Organized in partnership with The Estate of
Tom Wesselmann, both exhibitions highlight the bold approach to scale and color, art history and erotic representation that make Wesselmann one of the most inventive
Pop artists of his time.
Famous
Pop artists in the USA included: Jim Dine (b. 1935), Robert Indiana (aka John Clark)(b. 1928), Jasper Johns (b. 1930), Alex Katz (b. 1927), Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 97), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), Edward Ruscha (b. 1937), Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), James Rosenquist (b. 1933), Andy Warhol (1928 - 87) and
Tom Wesselmann (b. 1931).
A major survey exhibition of
Tom Sachs» paintings showcasing the
artist's ongoing interest in combining mass - produced,
pop cultural icons with a hand - made aesthetic.
Tom Wesselmann was an American
Pop artist best known for his collages, sculptures, and screenprints that stylized the female figure.
As an avid collector of
Pop, Op and Abstract Expressionists — including works by fellow
artist (and sign painter) Robert Indiana, Frank Stella,
Tom Wesselmann, Robert Motherwell, Gerald Laing and others — Gallery Director is a role that fits Bill Pugsley like a vintage Zoot Suit.
RH: I think about second - generation
Pop artists like
Tom Wesselmann, John Wesley, Ed Ruscha, and Rosalyn Drexler.
Tom Wesselmann was one of the leading American
Pop artists of the 1960s, rejecting the emotive style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of iconic representations of nudes, still lifes, and landscapes.
Since
Tom Wassermann passed away in 2004, there has been a huge resurgence in demand for the leading
pop artist's nudes, still lives, and landscapes.
Works by such
Pop artists as the Americans Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg,
Tom Wesselman, James Rosenquist, and Robert Indiana and the Britons David Hockney and Peter Blake, among others, were characterized by their portrayal of any and all aspects of popular culture that had a powerful impact on contemporary life; their iconography — taken from television, comic books, movie magazines, and all forms of advertising — was presented emphatically and objectively, without praise or condemnation but with overwhelming immediacy, and by means of the precise commercial techniques used by the media from which the iconography itself was borrowed.
Tom Wesselmann Cheeky erotic images by one of the best American
pop artists.
Though
Pop artists did not consider themselves as being a part of a unified movement, the exhibition will include over 50 works from such
artists as: Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg,
Tom Wesselmann and lesser - known names such as Red Grooms and HC Westermann who defined and gave intellectual substance to the genre.
Artists presented include pioneers who helped launch and shape the American
Pop Art movement, which emerged in the early 1960s: Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol,
Tom Wesselmann and more.
What united us [by which he meant other «
Pop artists» such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and
Tom Wesselmann], you might say, was dread of the drip, the splash, the schmear, combined with an ironic attitude toward the banalities of American consumer culture.
American
pop artists such as James Rosenquist and
Tom Wesselman imitated the scale and pictorial language of advertising billboards.
From masterpieces by the Italian avant - garde
artists such as Giorgio Morandi, Fausto Melotti, Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana, to works by internationally famous
artists;
Pop Art by Andy Warhol,
Tom Wesselmann, Keith Haring; Conceptual Art by Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani; Surrealism by Max Ernst and Joan Mirò; the female vision of Carla Accardi and Marina Abramovic; «Arte Povera» by Giovanni Anselmo, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gilberto Zorio, plus contemporary
artists such as Darren Almond, Stephan Balkenhol, Massimo Bartolini, Vanessa Beecroft, Emily Jacir, winner of Hugo Boss Prize 2008, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Hirschhorn, Kiki Smith and Bill Viola.
Note: Other modern
artists associated with the
Pop art movement include: Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 97), Alex Katz (b. 1927), Andy Warhol (1928 - 87), Robert Indiana (b. 1928), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929),
Tom Wesselmann (b. 1931) Jim Dine (b. 1935) and James Rosenquist (b. 1933).
The powerhouse gallery has gathered nine monumental works of
Tom Wesselmann «Still Lifes» that the pioneering
pop artist created between 1967 and 1981 but never shown together.
Famous US
Pop artists included: Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920), Larry Rivers (1923 - 2002), Jim Dine (b. 1935), Robert Indiana (aka John Clark)(b. 1928), Alex Katz (b. 1927), Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 97), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), Ed Ruscha (b. 1937), James Rosenquist (b. 1933), Andy Warhol (1928 - 87), and
Tom Wesselmann (b. 1931).
After having been co-director of Leo Castelli Gallery from 1959 - 1969 during which time he was instrumental in launching the careers of
pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg,
Tom Wesselmann and John Chamberlain, Ivan broke away and decided to launch his own gallery.
It was during the era of
Pop Art in the 70's, when Stanick was in his studies, much inspired by
artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and
Tom Wesselmann.