Bio: Wesselmann, Bathtub Collage #4, 1964 © Adagp, Paris, 2024 Crédit photographique : © Photographie Vincent Everarts Bruxelles / Main: Banner #1, 1963 / Courtesy Cristea Roberts Gallery
Tom Wesselmann
Artist
Born in 1931, Tom Wesselmann began painting in the late 1950s. Though an admirer of the visual impact of American abstract painters, he embraced the iconographic vocabulary of his time, incorporating advertising, billboards, images, and objects in his work. He consciously pursued the classical genres of painting (still life, nude, landscape) while broadening the horizons of his art, both in terms of subject matter and technique. Halfway between painting and sculpture, his works also incorporate multimedia elements (light, movement, sound, video). As for his huge, spectacular Standing Still Lifes, at the crossroads between painting and installation, they introduce a format hitherto unseen.
Tom Wesselmann
Artist
Born in 1931, Tom Wesselmann began painting in the late 1950s. Though an admirer of the visual impact of American abstract painters, he embraced the iconographic vocabulary of his time, incorporating advertising, billboards, images, and objects in his work. He consciously pursued the classical genres of painting (still life, nude, landscape) while broadening the horizons of his art, both in terms of subject matter and technique. Halfway between painting and sculpture, his works also incorporate multimedia elements (light, movement, sound, video). As for his huge, spectacular Standing Still Lifes, at the crossroads between painting and installation, they introduce a format hitherto unseen.
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Bio: Wesselmann, Bathtub Collage #4, 1964 © Adagp, Paris, 2024 Crédit photographique : © Photographie Vincent Everarts Bruxelles / Main: Banner #1, 1963 / Courtesy Cristea Roberts Gallery
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