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July 1-31, 2015

MEL CASAS: ART ABOUT ART, 1975-1981

San Antonio Public Library Central Library

600 Soledad 

San Antonio, TX

 

Casas made a series of paintings that took art as his subject matter, beginning with Humanscape 74 (Deux Champ Stripped Bare by his Art, 1975), a punning, multilingual reference to Marcel Duchamp and his art. Casas sometimes takes another artist’s style out for a spin, as in Humanscape 75 (Lichtenstein in a Comic Spot, 1975), which employs the Ben-Day dots utilized by Lichtenstein and other Pop artists. In Casas’ painting, a number of women simultaneously call out “Roy!” The artist’s mute reply appears in a thought bubble: “Don’t they know…. I spotted ‘em first?” Casas also addresses the art market and the commodification of art in this series.

 

    by Cordova, Ruben C., Guest Curator, 2015.

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Humanscape 74
Humanscape 75
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Humanscape 82
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 NOTICE: All paintings represented on this site are the original work of Mel Casas. The paintings and their images are not to be reproduced, copied, or used for any other purposes without explicit permission..

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