Creativity can be triggered by the most mundane objects. In fact, those are the best things to play around with because people don't see it coming.
In an effort to liven up the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente started what is called the 6emeia project, Sewers and drains feature some very creative and intricate designs.
Apparently pinup artist George Petty had his hand in a few of these as well. Enjoy
Part of huge pulp fiction site called Collections Canada.
Click on each image to see the true color. For some reason they thumbnails looked washed out.
I've been enjoying the work Japanese pinup artist Rockin Jellybean since the mid 90's. He creates beautiful, often naked female subjects by mixing and matching his favorite anatomical features with his favorite actresses, creating his own creature of beauty and burlesque. His work can be found on flyers, posters, magazine, and album covers throughout Japan. His bottom heavy funky female pinup characters emulate styles and color schemes of the late 60's early 70s california style surf garageband "Car Kustom Kulture. He is one of the few pinup artists creating "thick" female artworks.
Imagine being a music teacher in a public school and having half of the group THE BEATLES in your own class (Paul and George) and not even seeing their young talent or encouraging it. True story.
In american society, the arts takes a backseat to everything else. It is not valued. Therefore most that grow up do not appreciate its worth and expect you to create things from your deepest soul for little compensation with the ever insulting carrot stick phrase of "you will get exposure". But they are only products of their schooling. In most public education systems, art and music one of the first things to be cut during budget reformations. Schools fail to see or nurture some brilliant minds and try to squeeze them into a shape they were never meant to be and end up falling through cracks as we label them "lazy" or "unmotivated".
I HATED school my whole life. I never did well but I loved learning and came alive when it came to art. This amazing clip explains why.
Art by Alphonse Mucha part of the Slavic Epic series.
Baron Von Lind (1937 -)
At first glance you might think these were created in the 1950's however Baron's pinup series span from 2002- 2007
You can view much more of his work on his site.
Coby Whitmore (1913- 1988)
In my opinion Coby Whitmore is hands down one of the best painters of very sexy all american 1950's women during this "New School" illustration period. In an effort to remain fresh he explored "unfinished" graphic shapes. Large areas have been minimized or eliminated in favour of letting background and foreground blend together in an interesting arrangement leaving minimal hints of a scene while other illustrators were painting and filling everything in a traditional manner.
During the late 40's and well into the late 50's, hardly an issue of Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping, went by without story and/or advertising art by Whitmore.
Sadly, for many of these old school legends, there are no direct sites showcasing their contributions to the world of art except for fan sites like Todays Inspiration keeping their name alive. I will be posting a part 2 of Coby's work at a later time.
Renowned illustrator/painter Robert A. Maguire created gorgeous cover images for more than a thousand books and worked for virtually every mainstream publisher in the U.S. He is best known for his incomparably sexy "femme fatale" images for pulp paperbacks in the 1950s and 1960s. Check out the new book "Dames, Dolls, and Gun Molls". Support the unsung art heros of days gone by.
Shane Glindes is an animator, character designer and pinup artist who has "character designed" Batman Beyond, Justice League, Samurai Jack and Kim Possible for companies like The Cartoon Network, Disney, Warner Brothers and DC comics. He also runs a retro art site called Cartoons Retro hosting the world's largest online archive of vintage illustration, animation, comics and cartoons.
Art Frahm (1907-1981)
Art Frahm, a Chicago area artist whose commercial art ranged from magazine cover illustration to zany "hobo" calendar paintings, excelled in (and perhaps created) the "ladies in distress" series for the Joseph C. Hoover & Sons calendar company, in which a lovely girl is literally caught with her panties down, her lacy undies slipping to her ankles while she's in the process of bowling, walking the dog or changing a tire. Frahm was commercially successful. His falling-panties paintings are still considered too camp to be art, and too juvenile to be erotica However this genre (which Frahm seems to have created) was in demand in the 1950s, and was later imitated by some other pin-up artists.
This shall be the first post of many. I use the term "pinup" loosely as I will be posting beautiful women from each era that brought joy to men's faces. images include classical paintings and photos of old to modern illustrations and computer graphics in random order. Enjoy
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Danny Tenaglia is known for DJing alog flashing huge flashlights.
The concept based off the amazing video Thousand Hand Bodhisattva .
George Petty.
All props to Olivia for making a branding sensation on pinup art. Much love and respect to her amazing work. However I have to school the new generation of pinup fans who have no clue who came before her.
George Petty was an artist who highly inspirational to her work as well as Vargas, Gil Elvgren and countless other pinup artist over the last 70 years. He help pioneer every pose, look and pinup cliche of the entire genre imitated by the new wave of retro pinup photographers to this day.
He was responsible what was known as the Petty Girl from 1933- 1956 Seen on tens of millions of calendars, magazine centerfolds, advertisements, posters, and billboards as well as a great number of pin-up ads for Pepsi Cola and Time magazine front cover of Rita Hayworth.
In Fawcett Publications' True magazine, the Petty Girl began appearing every month as either a centrefold or full-page illustration. The magazine published best-selling Petty Girl calendars in 1947 and 1948 that contained some of the artist's finest work.
The Petty Girl had a mischievous, engaging smile and a special twinkle in her eyes. Long-limbed and well endowed, she was a slick, supple, and alluring creature.
*Note the "betty page-esuqe" image 10 - 15 years before the real Betty Page came on the scene.
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