Tom WESSELMANN

"I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. “

 

An American artist, Tom Wesselman was originally destined for advertising art, from which he has preserved a simplificatory impulse. The main representative of Pop art in trio with Andy Warhol and Roy Lischtenstein, his art evokes traditional painting through themes such as the nude, still life, or landscapes, an affiliation affirmed by the artist who titles his works with the names of these pictorial genres. His style, on the other hand, is not traditional, as he works by assembling images from magazines that he transforms into identifiable flat shapes, with sharp contours and striking colors. The accumulation creates a superposition of layers constructing brief and anecdotal discourses, powerful and effective images around a central theme: eroticism.