Her sexiness is natural and uncontrived,
and her exposure
is always accidental.
Dian Hanson, The Art of the Pin-up
Gil Elvgren, I’ve Been Spotted, oil on canvas
Mad Men ends this week… Sigh! Who will not miss Don Draper and Joan Holloway, the epitomes of sexy in the 1960s? Way before their decade, who summed up sexy?
Gallerist Louis K. Meisel of New York City shares his extensive collection of the beautiful coiffed women next door, in stockings and garter belts, or in dreamlike settings captured in oil paintings, watercolors and pastels. The pin-up girl is said to have been born of war, when President Woodrow Wilson’s Division of Pictorial Publicity decided on her as the visual stimuli to persuade men to join the World War I. Both flirtatious and innocent, mischievous and sweet, was this well- or scantily-dressed woman persuasive or what?!
While pin-up is deemed as the objectification of women, it is also a testament to the quiet power of femininity, sexuality, and a woman’s freedom to choose. It is a recognition that women are agents of change simply by making the most of what she’s got (and have we got a lot!) in courage, style, looks, strength, compassion, wisdom, intelligence, charm, wit and humor. And may the softness of our curves lead mankind towards making more love than war!
The Great American Pin-up Girl Returns opens at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York City today, April 2 to May 2, 2015.
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Haddon Sundblom, Untitled (Girl with Dog)
Vaughan Alden Bass, Sugar N Spice oil on canvas
Gil Elvgren, Low Down Feelings, oil on canvas
William Medcalf, Permite Girl on Car Creeper, oil on canvas
xoxox
Sharon Birke
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Sharon@PowerfulGoddess.com
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