Tom Wesselman frequently works with collages of household commodities, such as television sets and refrigerator doors and sometimes even adds sound effects to his work. Wesselman also produced many paintings, drawings and prints with sexual elements. In 1961, Wesselman started the series 'Great American Nude', in which the female nude took a central place. In these paintings, colour was used to emphasise the woman's nipples, mouth or genitals. In other works, he isolated parts of the body even further, as in his Smoker series, in which he only depicted the mouth on large canvases. Wesselman also started producing large cut-outs from sheets of steel and aluminium in the 1980s.
Tom Wesselmann
Cincinnati 1931 - New York 2004
