The girls of 2010 are in the works with R.T. painting nearly 20 new selections of reproduction and original nose art on vintage metal for this year’s EAA AIRVENTURE at OSHKOSH, WI. The metal selection is diverse this year with C-47/D-3, A-26, C-25 Beech, T-28 Trojan, B-25 Mitchell represented. Samples will be posted as available to the site so keep checking us out for previews.
Coming in JUNE 2010, shop.rtfosterart.com. Now the products offered at airshows and tradeshows will be available year-round via our new online store. The store will offer aviation, automotive, and pin-up prints, nose arts on vintage metal, and more…stay turned to rtfosterart.com for more info.
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A pin-up girl or pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as pop culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display. Pin-up girls are often glamour models, fashion models, and actresses.
“Pin-up” may also refer to drawings, paintings and other illustrations done in emulation of these photos (see the List of pinup artists). The term was first attested to in English in 1941; however the practice is documented back at least to the 1890s. The “pin up” images could be cut out of magazines or newspapers, or be from postcard or chromo-lithographs, and so on. Such photos often appear on calendars, which are meant to be pinned up anyway. Later, posters of “pin-up girls” were mass-produced.
Many “pin ups” were photographs of celebrities who were considered sex symbols. One of the most popular early pin-up girls was Betty Grable. Her poster was ubiquitous in the lockers of G.I.s during World War II. Others pin-ups were artwork, often depicting idealized versions of what some thought a particularly beautiful or attractive woman should look like. An early example of the latter type was the Gibson girl, drawn by Charles Dana Gibson. The genre also gave rise to several well-known artists specializing in the field, including Alberto Vargas and George Petty, and numerous lesser artists such as Art Frahm.
The term “cheesecake” is synonymous with “pin-up photo”. The earliest documented print usage of this sense of “cheesecake” is in 1934 [1], predating “pin-up”, although anecdotes say the phrase was in spoken slang some 20 years earlier, originally in the phrase (said of a pretty woman) “better than cheesecake”. In the 1950′s, for example, there was a magazine called Cheesecake that had a young Marilyn Monroe in an itsy bitsy yellow bikini on its cover in 1953.
These days men can be considered “pin ups” as well and there are male equivalents of attractive and sexy actors such as Harrison Ford or numerous male models. The counterpart term to “cheesecake” is “beefcake”.
In comic books, a pin-up is simply a full-page piece of artwork, most often without dialogue, that showcases a character, group of characters, or significant event, published within a single issue or annual rather than made available by itself as a poster.
In professionally published fan magazines for films and television series, a posed photograph of actors or actresses from the subject matter, but might also showcase specific scenes from the subject matter in photograph form (called stills) are occasionally called pin-ups. The label is very casual, though, as these types of fan media are more accurately described as posters
While begun for practical reasons of identifying friend from foe, the practice evolved, with benefits to morale, in expressing pride, relieving the uniform anonymity of the military, offering comfort by recalling home or peacetime life, and as a kind of fetish against enemy action. The appeal, in part, came from nose art not being officially approved, even when the regulations were not rigorously enforced (or at all).[9][10]
Subject matter
Source material was widely varied, from pinups (such as Rita Hayworth) and fashion to patriotism (Yankee Doodle) and fictional heroes (Sam Spade) to lucky symbols (dice or cards) and cartoons to the inevitable (Death or the Grim Reaper),[11] with cartoon figures and pin-ups being the most popular (among American artists, at least). Other popular topics included animals, nicknames, hometowns, and popular song and movie titles. The Luftwaffe did not use much nose art, but Mickey Mouse adorned a Condor Legion Bf-109 during the Spanish Civil War and one Ju-87A was decorated with a large pig inside a white circle during the same period. A Ju-87B-1 (S2+AC) of Stab II/St.G 77, piloted by Major Alfons Orthofer and based in Breslau-Schongarten during the Polish September Campaign of 1939, was painted with a shark’s mouth, and some Bf-110s were decorated with furious wolf’s heads or shark mouths on engine covers. Another example was Erich Hartmann’s Bf-109G-14, “Lumpi”, with an eagle’s head. A Bf-109K-14 (10 red) of I./JG 300, managed by Officer Wolfgang Hunsdorfer, was flown by various pilots. There is also a spurious squadron, created by Luftwaffe propaganda, the Grünherz (Green Hearts). The Soviet Air Force decorated their planes with imagery of history, mythical beasts, and patriotic motifs.
The farther the planes and crew were from headquarters or from the public eye, the racier the art tended to be.[12] For instance, nudity was more prevalent with aircraft based in the South Pacific than in England. [13]
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