
Study for Great American Nude #90
Tom Wesselmann's *Study for Great American Nude #90* is a bold exploration of the female form rendered in the artist's signature Pop Art style, employing flat, graphic planes of vivid color that reduce the nude figure to a series of simplified, iconic shapes. The work draws on the visual language of advertising and mass media, contrasting the sensuality of the subject with a cool, almost clinical detachment. Wesselmann's deliberate elimination of facial features further transforms the figure into an abstracted symbol, commenting on idealized notions of femininity in postwar American culture.
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- Auction House · Phillips
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Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 17, 2013
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