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Mel Ramos

1935 - 2018

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Melvin John Ramos (July 24, 1935 – October 14, 2018) was an American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art. Born in Sacramento, California, to a first generation Portuguese-Azorean immigrant family, he gained his popularity as part of the pop art movement of the 1960s. Ramos is "best known for his paintings of superheroes and voluptuous female nudes emerging from cornstalks or Chiquita bananas, popping up from candy wrappers or lounging in martini glasses". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mel Ramos has received more than 129,934 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Mel Ramos is the 1,804th most popular painter (down from 1,519th in 2019), the 7,362nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,259th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Mel Ramos ranks 1,804 out of 2,023. Before her are Victor Borisov-Musatov, Józef Pankiewicz, Frank Brangwyn, Carlos Latuff, Peter Scott, and Suzanne Duchamp. After her are Ants Laikmaa, Peter Blake, Katherine Sophie Dreier, Giovanni d'Alemagna, Frederick Sandys, and Miroslav Kraljević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Mel Ramos ranks 365. Before her are Yuri Titov, Usha Mangeshkar, David Todd Wilkinson, Mal Evans, Henning Enoksen, and Dorothy Provine. After her are Hubert Hahne, Heinz Schneiter, Jimmy Makulis, Dariush Shayegan, Ramsey Lewis, and Peter Schickele. Among people deceased in 2018, Mel Ramos ranks 343. Before her are Vic Damone, Shuhrat Abbosov, Ray Wilson, Madalena Iglésias, Anne V. Coates, and Marceline Loridan-Ivens. After her are Warwick Estevam Kerr, José Antonio Zaldúa, Dariush Shayegan, Ray Wilkins, Mohammed Hazzaz, and Leo Falcam.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mel Ramos ranks 7,362 out of 20,380. Before her are Dorothy Provine (1935), Kane Hodder (1955), Mia Malkova (1992), Andra Day (1984), Mark Snow (1946), and Kevin Gage (1959). After her are Charles Reidpath (1889), Pat Crawford Brown (1929), Jane Curtin (1947), Richard Murphy (1931), Ron Clements (1953), and Jean Stapleton (1923).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Mel Ramos ranks 98. Before her are Paul McCarthy (1945), Kay Sage (1898), Charles Sheeler (1883), Lawrence Weiner (1942), George Inness (1825), and Clyfford Still (1904). After her are Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877), John Marin (1870), Charles Dana Gibson (1867), Alice Neel (1900), Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849), and Marsden Hartley (1877).

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