George Gross

George Gross (1909-2003) was a great pulp magazine cover artist. His first pulp cover assignments were for Mystery Novels Magazine and Double Action Western, which were both Winford Publications. George Gross next found work at Fiction House, where he soon became their top illustrator. He painted hundreds of freelance pulp covers for Action Stories, Air Stories, Baseball Stories, Complete Northwest, Detective Book Magazine, Fight Stories, Football Stories, Jungle Stories, North West Romances, and Wings.

Two Pieces of Leonardo

One of the most provocative works of Leonardo da Vinci "Angel Incarnate" will be exhibited at the Cantonal Art Museum in Lugano at January 2012. "Angel Incarnate", made ​​in early 1500 with a charcoal or pastel, is the figure of the androgyne, the perfect result of mixing of the masculine and feminine.



There is similar work of Léonard de Vinci in Musée du Louvre. We can compare these 2 pieces. As we can see it's the same model on both pieces but the second one's title is 'Saint Jean-Baptiste'

Gil Elvgren

Gil Elvgren is wide known American painter of pin-up girls, advertising and illustration. He was one of the most popular pin-up and glamour artists of the twentieth century.

I guess everyone loves vintage Pin-ups, as an art style, it's somthing like idealized versions of the way of how beautiful or attractive woman should look like. Someone said that Pin-up art is not only an image of a person sufficiently attractive that a viewer would pin it to a wall, but the part of art we have enjoyed frequently and that's wonderful. Just look at this fabulous woman painted by Gil Elvgren.

Here is the site of artist - http://www.gilelvgren.com/GE/paintings.php?categoryID=1
It's real enjoyment.

Jules-Abel Faivre

Jules-Abel Faivre - French painter, caricaturist, illustrator, lithographer, 1867-194.

She Walks In Beauty - Lord Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.


One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.


And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!