Tom Wesselmann's Acrylic Painting On Linen Smoker # 9?

Tom Wesselmann’s acrylic painting on linen Smoker #9 was created in 1973, a time when sex appeal could sell just about anything. His billboard style painting is simplistic yet very dramatic. The picture concentrates on a limited number of object: a woman’s mouth, a cigarette, a woman’s hand and smoke. Isolated on the wall, these elements are deprived of a background allowing the shape of the canvas provides an empathetic boundary between the world of the picture and the world around it.
Tom uses minimal, yet bright color, in his piece. Pink to accent sensual lips as well as polish on a woman’s hand, white and grey for the smoke, as well as flesh color for the woman’s hand. The repeat use of the same colors allows the art to be simplistic,