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Born on July 24, 1935 |
in Sacramento, California, the son of Portuguese immigrants |
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Alongside Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist, he is one of the most important exponents of pop art |
1955 |
Married his wife Leta |
Since 1922 |
Mel Ramos has been living and working alternately in Oakland, California and Horta de San Joan, Spain |
From 1954 |
Studied art and art history at Sacramento Junior und State College: his teacher Wayne Thiebaud exerted a lasting influence |
From 1961 |
Comics and superheroes become the basis of his pop art |
From 1963 |
Pin-ups, advertising clichés and female sexuality dominate his works and make him famous |
1964 |
First solo exhibition at the Bianchini Gallery, New York; becomes established as one of the main exponents of pop art |
1966-1997 |
Lecturer at California State University in Hayward |
1967 |
Exhibition in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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This is followed by hundreds of other exhibitions in major galleries and museums in the USA and Europe |
From 2000 |
Mel Ramos and Rupert Schroeder begin their successful collaboration |
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Further groups of works are created over the following decades, e.g. fashion paintings, animal paintings, tributes to art history with his "Unfinished paintings", pin-up girls added to nude paintings by famous colleagues, sculptures, landscapes and self-portraits |
2010 |
Great retrospective museum exhibition in Europe to celebrate Ramos' 75th birthday |
2012 |
Atilla Kirbas established contact to Mel Ramos during a signing of the Delicious in Color |