Smoker #9
Smoker #9
Artist
Tom Wesselmann
(1931 - 2004)
Date1973
MediumAcrylic on linen
Dimensions83 x 89 1/2 in. (210.8 x 227.3 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2008.14
Signedverso, on stretcher: SMOKER #9 1973 WESSELMANN
Accession number
2008.14
On View
Not on viewLabel TextSmoker #9 isolates a model’s sensual mouth, removing it from a social context and even from her body. The painting’s slick surface looks like a billboard advertisement. In the 1960s and ‘70s, advertising campaigns promoting smoking increased rapidly, as did the release of cigarette brands aimed at the female market. Smoker #9 features many of the hallmarks of Wesselmann’s works: the look of Hollywood glamour, the eroticized female body, and the fetishized act of smoking.
En Fumadora n.º 9, vemos la sensual boca de un modelo, extraída de su contexto e incluso del cuerpo de la mujer. La impecable superficie de la pintura se asemeja a la de una valla publicitaria. En las décadas de 1960 y 1970, proliferaron la promoción del consumo de tabaco, así como las marcas que buscaban captar el mercado femenino. Fumadora n.º 9 presenta los sellos distintivos de las obras de Tom Wesselmann: el aspecto glamoroso de Hollywood, el cuerpo femenino erotizado y el fetichismo del acto de fumar.
