Xev WWII style pin-up
I just spent $40 on a book called The Great American Pin-up by Charles Martignette, who has the largest collection of original Vargas paintings in the world, but I unseal it and open it up only to find that Vargas’s estate lawyers wouldn’t let him reproduce them because Vargas was better than just a pin-up painter. The only ones he could put in were the paintings owned by Esquire. I think his lawyers are cheapening his work by claiming he wasn’t a pin-up painter.
Does anybody know Vargas for anything but Pin-ups? What exactly is WRONG with pin-ups? Is there something wrong with art that only says “here’s a pretty girl” or “look at this guy’s muscles”? I think Michelangelo would be more impressed with Vargas (and Flamegrape) than Picasso and Warhol, but that’s the kind of thinking that got me in trouble with art people in the first place. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]
Had to vent…. but 10-Q 4 your kind comments. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Pet;D
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