Since the mid-1960s Ramos has devoted his art to depicting single female figures: from female super heroes such as Wonder Woman to pin-up girls from advertisements and magazines, which were draped on painted consumer products and thus parody the trivial glamour of advertising, which influences consumerism with these marketing strategies, by trying to sell their products with images of provocative female sexuality. Whether Ramos is accusing the exploitation of the female body as a sexual object of using these means himself and glorifying it, remains unclear.
From 1972 on Ramos also created „Unfinished Paintings“ which satirze nude paintings by classic masters such as Ingres, Modigliani and Manet, substituting their subtle eroticism with the direct sex appeal of the pin-ups. The artist says about his art: “I’m an observer. I look at things the way that you would look at a landscape. That’s the way it is, that’s the way of the world, that’s the way I see, as a painter.”
