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Manhattan Pop Artist Tom Wesselmann, 37, is an artist who believes that the female nude is a subject to which an artist can devote his full attention. To prove his thesis, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has put on view 23 ot Wesselmann's pictures dedicated to 'the Great American Nude." Accompanying them are five of the pristine assemblages of kitchen and/or bathroom objects that Wesselmann creates to evoke the "typical American home" in which the G.A.N. is presumably found...
Other artists took it from there. New York's Tom Wesselmann silk-screened the image of a nude onto plastic, then shaped it to capture its contours as well. Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi used eleven colors for Wittgenstein in New York, incorporated such city elements as jets, skyscrapers, and the man from a Bufferin ad to tick off hectic modern life. Roy Lichtenstein printed his Moonscape on metallic plastic that shimmers like aluminum foil. Claes Oldenburg made a serigraph print and attached a rust-colored felt...
...deluged with a thousand images that are themselves manmade, not the least of which flash from the television screen. To be true to reality means to include such images; so what is more logical than to tuck a TV screen into a painting. Or at least so thinks Tom Wesselmann, 34, who fiddles with the girl who doesn't exist, the supersex symbol, the Great American Nude, and sets her in homey seraglio scenes decorated with real radiators. Lift the Venetian blind, and there is a calendar painting of a Japanese harbor. Or, as in one recent Nude...
...refuse to draw the line between flat painting and three-dimensional structures," says Wesselmann. "I'm aware of the differences between real and imi tation, but I don't attach much significance to the distinction. A painter from Belgium was up to my studio and thinks my works have to do with capitalism because I use real products. Not so; it's really an affirmation of the whole world...
...Billboard. The nude in Wesselmann's Great American Nude might have been done by a distant-very distant-relative of Henri Matisse. But only a pop artist would insert her between a panorama photograph of a city and a bed of red and white stripes straight from Old Glory. Wesselmann, 32, talks a good deal about the "esthetic relationship" between what is painted in a collage and the object that is stuck onto it, but his esthetics often turn out to be a bag of raucous gimmicks that merely assault the nerves. He pictures one of his nudes with...