Posted on 06/13/2013 12:23:43 PM PDT by mojito
Its easy to think of pin-up art as a charming relic of the old boys clubimages that might line the walls of a Mid-Century smoking room where Don Draper and Roger Sterling slap each other on the back. And the names of the artists that come up over and over again are men: Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren.
So you might be surprised to learn that, according to pin-up art expert Louis K. Meisel, three of the most talented pin-up painters from the Golden Age, roughly the 1920s to the early 1960s, were women. Pearl Frush, Joyce Ballantyne, and Zoë Mozert were terrific, as good as any of the menin fact, better than many of them, Meisel says.
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She’ll need some help when she gets a hot shell down her blouse, too ...
Ah, yes...
In order; Pearl Frush, Joyce Ballantyne, and Zoë Mozert, to give them their due.
And for the distaff side ...
This thread is much better now!.
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My understanding is that the actress, Jodie Foster, was the little girl in the Coppertone ad that became famous.
I think I've heard that such images are verbotten in today's Army. They "promote rape" and "create a hostile work environment".
. In her piece, which was reprinted in Tease! Magazine #3 in 1995, Phillips asserts, It is infinitely logical that these exquisite creatures were painted by a female. No man, no matter how knowledgeable, can be as familiar with the feminine form as a woman.You find mistakes in the male paintings, Phillips told me. Elvgrens got a famous painting where shes got two left feet, and there are just these things that dont fit every once in a while. The women never made those mistakes. I think they looked in the mirror a lot and they got things more right. The men tended to make the breasts larger, and they made the legs longer. The women tended to paint very proportionate women, more of a 36-26-36 look, whereas men would make them a little top-heavy.
That Picasso didn't even realize that a woman's eyes are not on the same side of her face! You can just tell that this had to have been done by a man!!!
If anyone hasn't seen it, do. It is without doubt the most howlingly funny thing I have ever read on the internet.
Grrrrawwrr!
When women were women, and proud of it.
What I know now may help win a few bar bets.
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