Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #30, 1963Museum Of Modern Art, NYC
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This week's painting (of sorts) is inspired by Mischka who enjoyed herself muchly in NYC and in MOMA. (In contrast, we all know how I felt.) Like much of Wesselmann's other work from the 60s, Still Life is a combination of painting, sculpture (that's a real fridge door with 7-UP bottles), and collage of of commercial labels he found on the street. The use of those popular objects, combined with his bright coloured scenes of domesticity, meant he was grouped as a Pop Artist with his contemporaries, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
Wesselmann himself disliked the label as he believed that while his works celebrated popular culture, his work was also a modern reimaging of genre types. Still Life #30 reflects not only the tradition of depicting inanimate objects that the name reflects, but also landscape through the scene out of the window, and the nude - the positioning of the two oranges near the tower is no mere coincidence!
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This week's painting (of sorts) is inspired by Mischka who enjoyed herself muchly in NYC and in MOMA. (In contrast, we all know how I felt.) Like much of Wesselmann's other work from the 60s, Still Life is a combination of painting, sculpture (that's a real fridge door with 7-UP bottles), and collage of of commercial labels he found on the street. The use of those popular objects, combined with his bright coloured scenes of domesticity, meant he was grouped as a Pop Artist with his contemporaries, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
Wesselmann himself disliked the label as he believed that while his works celebrated popular culture, his work was also a modern reimaging of genre types. Still Life #30 reflects not only the tradition of depicting inanimate objects that the name reflects, but also landscape through the scene out of the window, and the nude - the positioning of the two oranges near the tower is no mere coincidence!
3 comments:
awesome! ...seriously..how do you know all this stuff...amazing!!!
sorry, I don't really understand what the 2 oranges near the tower ?
I'm probably strange, but I don't understand. (Sorry for my English: I'm french !) ;) thanks !
Les deux oranges ressemblent à des seins.Je pense que c'est un clin d'oeil à ses "Great Americain nude"
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