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!

Giovanni Boldini

I love paintigs of Giovanni Boldini very much and would like you open the art of this genius artist for yourself. Giovanni Boldini (December 31, 1842 - July 11, 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter, belonging to the Parisian school. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.



Boldini was born in Ferrara, the son of a painter of religious subjects, and went to Florence in 1862 to study painting, meeting there the realist painters known as the Macchiaioli. Their influence is seen in Boldini's landscapes which show his spontaneous response to nature, although it is for his portraits that he became best known.



He attained great success in London as a portraitist. From 1872 Boldini lived in Paris, where he became a friend of Edgar Degas. He also became the most fashionable portrait painter in Paris in the late 19th century, with a dashing style of painting which shows some Impressionist influence but which most closely resembles the work of his contemporaries John Singer Sargent and Paul Helleu.



He was nominated commissioner of the Italian section of the Paris Exposition in 1889, and received the Legion d'honneur for this appointment. He died in Paris in 1931. (From Wikipedia)

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, one of the most famous Irish born English artist of 20th century was was born October 28, 1909, in Dublin. At the age of 16, he moved to London and subsequently lived for about two years in Berlin and Paris.

It's well known that Francis Bacon was a homosexual artist that sometimes depicted male lovers making love and this Two Figures Painting reflects that as well.



"The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure; it’s a little like making love, the physical act of love."
Francis Bacon



"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. "
Francis Bacon




Bacon's dramatic and riveting work gained international recognition and acclaim. He did not belong to any art movement, but developed his own style. "Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid", he said.The artist died April 28, 1992, in Madrid.

Steve Hanks Nude Watercolors

Steve Hanks graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Early on, an allergic reaction to oil paint forced him to experiment with watercolors, a medium which he has now famously mastered. He has won countless awards over twenty-five years and was entered into the U.S. Art Hall of Fame in 2000He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.




You do love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her:-)

Netsuke

No doubt all of you have heard about such decoration piece as the netsuke. Perhaps you also know the story of it which is dating back to the 17th century Japan and became extremely popular in Europe towards the end of the 19th Century and were sold in many places as novelty items very cheaply.



Usually netsuke is made of Ivory or wood but a variety of other materials also have been used throughout the history, such as ceramic, horn, bone, amber etc. The quality of Netsuke was variable, very often it expressed sexual depictions and symbols referring to different work of Eastern art and literature.



Start as a pocket usage into a sexual giddiness (it’s well known tradition of buying a it to newly married couples) it used as a sexual guide for the older children of wealthy families in Japan and China. So very soon Netsuke became a most popular collectible item all over the world.



For all those who probably be curious, “tentacle porn” art has roots in Japan, appearing first in netsuke pieces, and then in shunga, or erotic art prints, by ukiyo-e Hokusai. For instance this really very thrilling print is titled “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife” and is dated by 1820.