FlashParade is a
magnificent artist, who does a lot of
what can be easily classified cartoon
pinup art. The artist’s cute subjects
are very feminine and dynamic, and loads
of fun. Good art and good pinup. Enjoy!
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Over two years of The Pinup Blog and,
surprisingly enough, we’ve yet to touch on a
very pinup-esque theme: The zodiac.
Women as allegory
came up in last
week’s post. Today is all allegory
with Zodiac Pinups. Though traditionally
woman have been used in the images of the
Virgo sign and often Aquarius, this week,
we’ll be focusing on complete series of
women as zodiac signs.
#10 Fantasy Zodiac Pinups
Probably what you’d
most expect to see out of a woman zodiac
series, but surprisingly not the most
commonly found on the net. Soft and
meticulous fantasy art, with kitschy
mystical touches. It’s less overtly sexy
and focuses more on femininity.
Something for the whole family
Women have often shown up in
revolutionary images. What is a woman’s role
in the revolution? Today The Pinup Blog
explores revolutionary pinups!
Visual art has always had the ability to
concretely represent abstract concepts, while
still leaving room for debate. Revolution is
one of those abstract concepts.
Interestingly, women have been one theme
utilized in order to interpret the many faces
of the concept of revolution. Today, we take
a look at the different female
representations of revolutions.
In search for pinup
beauty, I landed on
this terrific show-don’t-tell post at
LiveJournal. The post showcases some of the
most common trends in contemporary pinup art;
fantasy, neo-realism, photoshopped beauty and
interesting trending towards classic
expressionism. Take some time off for this
safe for work compilation.
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Today’s Bi-Weekly
Bombshell is a pinup collector’s dream.
Pinup lovers, Roger Biosca and Toni
Ricart, compile vintage pinup ads and
bind it all together in a gorgeous
coffee-table book,
Dream Baby. With minimum text and maximum
pinups, you can enjoy series of ads from
those best pinup years, 1935-1955. Also check
out their
collector’s blog of vintage items.
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What’s the fierce attraction to Hamish
Blakely’s stunning piece, Duel?
Last Thursday, we were introduced to the
brilliant work of Hamish Blakely. Though
Blakely creates many beautiful and complex
images and I recommend checking them all out,
the image we’re about to discuss, Duel, was
the most striking, to me, and I couldn’t wait
to examine it more deeply. So without further
ado!
Flickr proves again
and again to be a source of wonder.
During my Bi-Weekly search for
eye-popping bombshells and gorgeous
pinups I stumbled upon Tiny Titian’s
photostream, which includes a
set devoted to pinups. Mishella
Vendetta is the neo-pinup model and you’ll
love her color shots, where her bright
red-to-pink hair matches her lipstick.
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Hamish
Blakely is the brilliant artist who
created this and many other meticulous and
dramatic paintings. I find these paintings
are the graphic
definition of “erotic”, with lighting,
composition and all possible effects that
create an unforgettable scene. Of course
Blakely’s subjects add more diversity to
the pinup hall of fame, which makes me
love his work even more. Pinups of
substance; Check them all out!
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In dramatic scene, tough and even evil,
it’s the sexy Easter bunny fantasy gone
awry.
One of the most
common fantasies in cyber space, the
sexy bunny, has endless Google results.
While the typical sexy Easter bunny is
just a poster girl, on the sweet side
and often a Playboy cliche, I’ve run
into a more fetishistic bunny, this
year, which I’m more than glad to share
with you.
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is Ryan
McGinley’s latest collection of portraits.
While sex is definitely an issue that’s
evident in McGinley’s work, there are many
human issues that it evokes. Everybody Knows
This Is Nowhere is a beautiful collection
that shows the diversity of young people,
rarely shown in the mainstream channels.
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The following news
bit is a
repost from Jon Piek, go to his page for
the full report:
Art
frauds in the Age of the Internet : Legal
ramifications for artists, collectors and the
industry.
In
2007, Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama
obtained a nearly $2-million judgment,
including $1 million in punitive damages,
against Robert S. Bane, his publishing
company, Robert Bane Ltd., and his gallery,
the Tamara Bane Gallery. In 2009, a federal
bankruptcy court refused to allow Bane to
discharge the debt, citing a pattern of
intentional and pervasive fraud perpetrated
against Sorayama. The bankruptcy court also
ruled in 2009 that embezzling exists. The
Chapter 7 process is still ongoing after over
2 years while asset inventory and other
issues are being discovered in the courts'
process including appeals. BREAKING NEWS: On
March 2, 2010, a sale of bankruptcy estate
assets that contain creditor artist
discovered related rights discrepancies and
irregularities took place. As of about March
4, 2010 Artist Sorayama as major creditor
requests court officer(s) to conduct and or
reveal the actual due diligence on this sale
regarding the specific buyer(s) of estate
assets in context of proceedings before
ratification of any sale. The Appeal to the
9th Circuit held oral arguments presented
during February 3, 2010 and will conclude its
rulings/finding in the months ahead. The "
unbonded " Appeal process may examine some of
alleged abuses of the legal process noted
during the Appeal argument and potential
abuses occurring as early as trial, the
months after trial court's rulings/orders and
in particular the extensive legal team that
came on board about the time of the first
post trial judgment exam of debtors' master
image archivist and giclee printer. On /
about 15 January 2010, a three Judge panel of
Bankruptcy Appellate Panel analyzed the facts
concerning trial court and bankruptcy court
rulings against debtor. The trial court
rulings and subsequent bankruptcy court
rulings stand in place under the review and
scrutiny of higher courts' appeal panel.
(citing United States Bankruptcy Appellate
Panel of the 9th Circuit: BAP No.
CC-09-1108-MoPaH). Another Bankruptcy Appeal
by creditor artist Sorayama is pending.
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“Fool” is surprisingly a very common word
in love songs. This year, the first of April
takes a serious turn with 10 gorgeous and
diverse pinups that sing about fools.
Today’s top 10 April Fools pinups have little
in common. They come in all shapes, colors
and sizes and sing in various styles and
genres. All of them, however, have phenomenal
talent and all will be singing songs that
have the word “fool” in them. Enjoy the show!
#10 Aretha Franklin - Runnin’ Out of
Fools
We start with the 1964 classic, Runnin’ Out
of Fools, with a young and sweet, but very
mature Aretha Franklin. It’s always
fascinating to see the alternative images
sold at the time to the public and better
yet, through an incredible performance, like
this one.
The “exotic” fantasy has always existed
in the pinup realm and long before. The Pinup
Blog takes a look at the social aspects of
one of its favorite fantasies.
I love the diversity that’s offered in the
pinup world. Beautiful images are produced
with the assistance of cultural symbols in
clothing and accessories and, of course, the
diversity of the models themselves. I touched
on this subject in
my article about Palestinian pinups.
Rather than repeat what could have made a
great opening for this article, I’d like to
start with this whimsical, clever and
beautiful young woman, Natalie, who’s totally
an “exotic” pinup girl of her times.
I just happened to
stumble on
a blog post focusing on French print artist,
Édouard Chimot. Chimot is mainly known
for his work during the 1920’s, such as this
one. Much of his work depicts the glamorous
and depraved city life. You can tell that the
fashions are just transitioning from
victorian to 20th century.
Fascinating pinups with economic lines. Look
him up!
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The breasts are lopsided and frightening,
the nipples are turned at strange angles, the
hips and bum are exaggerated, and the cute
button up nose is pushed upwards and
distorted. Lisa Yuskavage gleefully mocks the
male fantasy.
Traditional pin-up
artwork may rest somewhere between the
border of illustration and pornography,
but many modern artist are trying to
help push the genre towards a more fine
art end. Pin-ups by definition are
created for mass consumption, able to be
posted up and viewed by a large
audience. The most classic images are
those of beautiful young women posed
suggestively to draw the consumer into
buying an array of products and
services.
Here’s something for
you vintage world explorers. Komiklopedia is a
brilliant site dedicated to vintage
Philippine comics and memorabilia. There’s
lots of buffed up beefcake and distressed
cheesecake to see, so take your time and
enjoy the ride around the globe!
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In 2007 the Mildred Lane
Kemper Art Museum held an exhibition,
Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of
American Art and Popular Culture. This
Lichtenstein piece is what’s left of it
visually, but for you literary types,
there’s also this fascinating article
about the exhibition. This is definitly
one I’m sorry I missed.
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You never know where you may find
yourself, so don’t go out without that pinup
fix in your pocket!
It seems pinups
are not only objects to pin up, but also made
to fit right in your pocket. The Pinup Blog
has compiled a list of 10 essential pocket
pinups, you can take anywhere!
Karen Lisa usually
does weddings and she does them
extraordinarily, but once she steps into
the boudoir, her creations are
irresistible! I, for one, am ecstatic
that she went out of her usual frame, so
she could create
beautiful feminine pinup pieces like this
one. And another huge plus to Lisa’s work
is the diversity of her models. All sizes,
all colors, a must-see!
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Not exactly cheesecake and not exactly
beefcake, but definitely sexy! It’s time to
feast your eyes on the butch pinup.
Feeling comfortable
in your own skin is the number one
ingredient for sex appeal. Not every
woman feels sexy in heels and lipstick,
and as a result, not every woman
is sexy in
heels and lipstick. This week, The Pinup
Blog takes a look at the diverse and
beautiful butch women, who prefer men’s
shorts over panties, and sideburns over
curlers.
If you’re an aspiring pinup artist,
here’s the place to start. Some tips and
tutorials on how to draw a pinup girl.
Aspiring pinup
artists can start here. Though nothing
can substitute years of practice, I’ve
gathered some of the best videos on
youtube and added some tips of my own
that could help you get started on your
pinup painting career. Good luck! (And
feel free to ask any questions!)
The amazing
randomness of the internet took me
across time to
the fascinating article by Herbert A.
Friedman, Sex and Psychological
Operations. An eye-opening examination of
the chauvinism that reigned supreme, at the
time and the German utilization of it, for
war propaganda, in World War II. The essay is
accompanied by the leaflets of the time, that
became collector’s items and pinups for the
soldiers.
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Oh, the wonders of
the internet! While cruising around
LiveJournal, I found the lovely SushiKitten59.
Her specialty?
Anthropomorphic neo pinups! You’ve got
your tatoos, your piercings, your bondage
gear and your... tail! Save the squirrels!
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The Pinup Blog is ecstatic to create a
tribute to the Gibson Girl. And it’s about
time, too!
By the end of the
19th
century, Charles Dana Gibson conjured up
the “Gibson Girl”. The Gibson Girl, in a
sense, was a byproduct of Gibson’s
satire work, but her beauty overpowered
the American audience and she soon
became the first national standard for
feminine beauty, in America. Her
distinct style made her iconic, and her
signature big hair and hourglass figure
are easily recognizable.
The Collar: Innocent fashion accessory,
or bondage gear?
From the most
innocent piece of jewelry to the most
fetishist admission of submission, collars
are actually quite common in pinup art. Today
we’ll look at a few examples of collars in
cheesecake and try too see if their function
and concept changes.
The Innocent Accessory in Classic
Pinups
Most probably
originating from Victorian fashions, the
collar, better known as the choker
(political correctness gone awry?), has
been fashionable all through the
19th
century. Many classic pinups from the
1940’s and 50’s feature this elegant,
little accessory:
I was happy to
stumble upon the Facebook group,
A group for people who love Burlesque Queens
and 1940's-1950's
Pin-ups, which has one of the
prettiest collections of retro pinups (like
this Elvgren homage, to the left). So if
you’re on Facebook, don’t miss this colorful
little community.
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The new year is upon us and so are the
calender girls!
Calenders are the
traditional display method for pinups. What’s
new in 2010? Many good causes and a lot of
good art. Ladies and gents, I give you The
Pinup Blog’s top 10 pinup calenders!
#10 Vintage Cowgirl Pinups Wall
Calendar
CafePress is full of pinup calenders and it
was hard to choose between them. We start our
list off with this
themed vintage cowgirl calender. Each
image is a collage, mixing up classic pinup
cowgirl with typography and some vintage
ornaments. Simple and sweet.
Winter is upon us and it’s time for the
pinups to cover up! (Or at least hold an
umbrella...)
It’s getting cold
and grey in my part of the world, and I’d
like to greet the coming season with all the
beautiful winter pinups (and beefcake) I
could find.
The Baseballs - Umbrella
Cover
It’s great to start with a little Rockabilly
beefcake. The Baseballs are a German
Rock’n’Roll cover band. They take modern hits
and turn them into 50’s styled hits. This is
their Version of Rihanna’s Umbrella.
For all you vintage
vultures, there’s tons of fantastic
photography at The Selvedge
Yard. From pinups to beefcake, to
oddities only your grandma could explain.
It’s the newest addition to the sidebar,
because it’s just that good! Enjoy.
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Lauren Moore creates
these meticulously designed and diverse
cartoon pinups, which just happen to
make fantastic stocking stuffers. So
keep them in mind, because I know you’re
already doing your Christmas shopping in
the US. For your convenience this
holiday season, you can find Lauren’s
Hellcat Honeys here and
also here.
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Is an icon different than an object? Does
a contemporary female pinup artist create
differently than a classic female pinup
artist?
Last time I’ve
analyzed a specific pinup piece it was
Zoë Mozert’s Bubbles. I was looking to
see what a female pinup artist does
differently than male pinup artists. In
Mozert’s case, we came to the banal gender
outlook, in which women portray women in a
soft manner, and yet still, as typical of the
genre, the woman in the image was
objectified. Today we look at radically
different Olivia de Berardinis and her piece
Belle Du Jour (1987).
Line, Blot, Shape, Texture and
Pattern
Once again, we start at the
basics. And again we talk about the fact that
the lines in pinup art are usually
suggestive- the meeting of two color
surfaces, creates the illusion of a line.
This, of course, creates the realism, so
typical of the genre. There are, however, the
white lines in the background, which seem to
serve as a pattern. These lines have a
compositional importance that we’ll get back
to later on, but also seem to serve as a
design element, hinting of Art Nouveau, which
is quite typical in de Berardinis’ work. The
straight, vertical lines conjure up guitar
strings, and- in conjuncture- the wavy lines
may remind us of music, loosely conversing
with abstract greats such as Paul Klee and
Wassily Kandinsky.
Blots are also rendered softly, in order to
create the illusion of reality. But unlike
Zoë Mozert’s piece, de Berardinis’ work has
sharp edges that rarely blend into one
another. Something we’ll get back to in the
lighting section.
Anita commissioned my work for a cause that’s
dear and near to my heart; Breast cancer
awareness. I was ecstatic to create the
Pink
Ribbon Pinup for Anita’s Intimate
Boutique (link coming soon), a plus size
boutique that specializes in mastectomy.
Beyond breast cancer awareness, nothing
gives me more pleasure than to promote
diversity, again, with this big, beautiful
African American woman.
Check out some Pink Ribbon Pinup items at the
Pinup Shop:
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It doesn’t
get any more retro than this. For all
you geeks that love a little sexual
innuendo in your code, I give you the
defining style of an era: ASCII Pinup.
Asthe creator of this
minimalist cheesecakeput it:
Hubba
hubba!
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The never-ending
source of fantastic photographers,
Flickr, brought the brilliantly retro
neo pinup photographer, Adrian
Benedykt, to my attention. High
saturation, classic pinup styling and
themes, with a 21st century
edge. Neo pinups at their best- go check
it out!
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I’m all for
supporting my fellow pinup bloggers, so
here’s a kick start for Vintage
Pinup Decals. New on the scene, the
blog mainly offers eBay links, for the
pinup collector and online auction
enthusiast. Bits and pieces of
information of the history of the art
form is slowly accumulating, which makes
for an interesting browse. I bid the
authors good luck and send you to a
sneak peek.
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Molly
Kiely,
author ofDiary
of a Dominatrix,
is an in-your-face underground comics
artist and illustrator. I find her and her
work (in no particular order) fascinating,
cheeky and devilishly sexy. She’s got a
lot to say, so here’s some of it:
Everyone ought to have a colourful past
(and, ideally, a colourful present), and
mine is being an unrepentant pornographer.
I've heard all the criticism about
pornography that there is -- so boring. My
sexually explicit work is not declasse or
moronic, and I maintain that I am a kickass
feminist. In the words of one of my
admirers, my work is "seditious" and
"undermines the paradigm of Lonely Guys
Comic Porn."
And on that note, check her out!
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I was just given the
beautiful book, collecting Joseph
Michael Linsner’s art,
Girls and Goddesses. I thought I’d share
the wonder. Here’s just one of Lisner’s
pieces, available for your viewing and
purchasing pleasure at his
website.
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This meticulously
drawn, wacky, neo pinup was created by
the phenomenal Brian M.
Viveros. Dark femme fatals with
bondage gear and random accessories are
the name of the game, and the results, as
seen here, are stunning. I couldn’t help
but compare with Jaime Hewlette’s Tank
Girl, of which I’m a huge fan, so this
is double fun for me, and I hope for you,
too.
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Sexy female
pin ups have been part of the Sci-Fi
fantasy genre since it’s creation.
Monthly magazine in the 30’s 40’s and
50’s feathered sexy half dressed woman
on their covers, usually fighting some
sort of horrible monster.
For most of the 20thcentury, the
sci-fi fantasy genre was male dominated, and
female roles were usually confined to the
generic female roles- the sexy babe or the
damsel in distress. While Tolkien and Asimov
had some more feminist female roles-
likeEowynand Dr.Susan
Calvin, those
characters where few and far in between.
Most female characters where for show, the
love interest of the brave male hero, the
sexy temptress etc.
The marvelous
fantasy artist, Jessica
Oyhenart (a.k.a
“tattereddreams&rdquo, has created these two
brilliant fairy tale pinups. Though she
only directly mentions “Masquerade Ball
- Alice” (left) as inspired by Alice in
Wonderland, I thought “Autumn” (right)
alludes to Little Red Riding Hood. Could
make for a wonderful neo pinup series...
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For all you vintage
craftspeople and vintage appreciators, I
bring you the highly creative A Dress A Day
blog. Almost every day an astonishingly
creative retro dress is uploaded and you
can just sit in awe and salivate. If
you’re an active vintage wear creator, I
also recommend checking out the fabulous
links on the sidebar.
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One of my favorite
creators at DeviantART, Elias
Chatzoudis, has just created this
little busty statement, in favor of breast
cancer awareness, missing my
article by less than a week. So I
decided to pay him tribute, after the
fact. It’s a beautiful cartoon pinup and
deserves our awareness.
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This was not the first time men had
admired pin-ups of physically non-existent
fantasy women, but certainly the first time
they would ogle a 3D
representative.
Although
video game pin-ups have existed since
the revival of interest in consol games,
in the mid 1980s, most consisted of
cartoonish depictions of various scenes
representing the game’s story line; Such
as Nintendo’s hero, Link, from the
popular Legend of Zelda franchise,
slaying a multi-headed dragon, or a
whimsical forest scene of Sega’s Sonic
the Hedgehog. The classic pin-up genre
featuring suggestively posed women was
introduced to video game art posters in
1996 with the inception of the British
company, Eidos’s Tomb Raider series,
starring who can now be credited as the
first massively popular digital sex
icon, Lara Croft.
Iman Woods is a
brilliant, self-taught pinup artist.
Starting with a quality photo shoot and
then painting the pinup, Iman hopes to
inspire you to love yourself a little.
Among other things, Iman gets a Pinup Blog
badge of honor for diversity, for creating
fantastic pregnant pinups. Beautiful
imagery with that retro elegance, go have
a look!
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Breast cancer isn’t a very lighthearted
theme, but if there’s one theme that’s
perfect for pinups, it’s their tits. This
week (this month to be exact) on The Pinup
Blog: Pinups and breast cancer
awareness!
Rethink Breast Cancer
Starting out with a little retro fun, here is
Rethink
Breast Cancer’s ad for the Fashion
Targets Breast Cancer t-shirt. Both
organizations are aimed at young adults;
While Rethink Breast Cancer are
responsible for some controversial
ads, Fashion Targets Breast Cancer
have super-model spokeswomen, the likes
of Gisele Caroline Bündchen and Claudia
Schiffer.
KrautBoys is a
fantastic erotic art blog that specializes
in artistic neo beefcake, with homoerotic
overtones. In fact, it’s so good, it’s the
first beefcake site I’m adding to the
sidebar! If you adore those
not-too-buffed, shapely, sporadically
tattooed and pierced young men, with an
artistic twist, you’ll love KrautBoys.
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It’s The Pinup Shop’s and Blog’s second
birthday and it’s time for the top 10
articles, you pinup lovers loved the most! I
won’t spoil it for you, I’m just proud to say
that diversity dominates this list.
Before we start,
here’s a personal celebration message from me
to my beloved readers (courtesy of RattleBox):
Noirotique
specializes in burlesque and fetish
inspired illustrations. It’s small now,
but the images are just so striking that
I want to go back and see where Patric
Gallian takes it next, and I suggest you
do the the same.
FlashParade is a
magnificent artist, who does a lot of
what can be easily classified cartoon
pinup art. The artist’s cute subjects
are very feminine and dynamic, and loads
of fun. Good art and good pinup. Enjoy!
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Traditional pin-up
artwork may rest somewhere between the
border of illustration and pornography,
but many modern artist are trying to
help push the genre towards a more fine
art end. Pin-ups by definition are
created for mass consumption, able to be
posted up and viewed by a large
audience. The most classic images are
those of beautiful young women posed
suggestively to draw the consumer into
buying an array of products and
services.
In 2007 the Mildred Lane
Kemper Art Museum held an exhibition,
Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of
American Art and Popular Culture. This
Lichtenstein piece is what’s left of it
visually, but for you literary types,
there’s also this fascinating article
about the exhibition. This is definitly
one I’m sorry I missed.
