{"id":4227,"date":"2016-04-26T14:25:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2016-04-26T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:26:15","slug":"tom-wesselmann-at-mitchell-innes-nash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/tom-wesselmann-at-mitchell-innes-nash\/","title":{"rendered":"Must See: Tom Wesselmann at Mitchell-Innes &#038; Nash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miandn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitchell-Innes &amp; Nash<\/a> opened the first major retrospective of paintings by American Pop-Artist Tom Wesselmann on Thursday, April 21, in partnership with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomwesselmannestate.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Wesselmann Estate<\/a>. The exhibition features twelve of the artist\u2019s works and examines the impact of his contributions to the Pop-Art movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0720-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0720\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Wesselmann is best known for his \u201cGreat American Nude\u201d series, a career-spanning body of work that places seductively-posed faceless nudes in highly saturated interiors. The exhibition at Mitchell-Innes &amp; Nash features paintings that span the breadth of this series, from Great American Nude of 1961\u00a0to the Sunset Nudes completed in 2004, the year of the artist\u2019s death. The exhibition also features other techniques Wesselmann utilized, including assemblage, collage, molded plastic paintings, and shaped canvases, along with his innovative steel-cut works. \u00a0An exemplary work from Wesselmann\u2019s \u201cSmoker\u201d series ensnares viewers in sultry smoke billowing forth from a disembodied pair of blood-red lips.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0716-e1461428629786-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0716\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Wesselmann&#8217;s oeuvre is filled with rich landscapes, still lifes, and bold nudes.\u00a0His\u00a0paintings are sexy, and it\u2019s only fitting that this retrospective opens in tandem with the arrival of shoulder-baring weather. Looking for something fun, cultured, and sexy to do? Take your date to this Tom Wesselmann retrospective. Or go solo (like me)\u00a0and bask in the artist\u2019s sage interpretation of American ideology.<br \/>\nTom Wesselmann at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miandn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitchell-Innes &amp; Nash<\/a> is on view from April 21 &#8211; May 28, 2016.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell-Innes &#038; Nash opened the first major retrospective of paintings by American Pop-Artist Tom Wesselmann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}