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You left out one of my all-time favorite artists, Frank Frazetta! Chris Achilleos, Luis Royo and Julie Bell are also great artists, and do a good bit of modern pin-up (though some is more in the sci-fi/fantasy genre). A point of interest in reference to Olivia is that she doesn't necessarily use live models, per se. She actually uses photographs of models shot by her photographer husband...
-XJoeyX
I left out quite a few to be sure, but felt I might be overstepping my new member status, by continuing my list. Julie Bell certainly I should have named. Thanks for adding those I left out, and the POI regarding Olivia. I tried life drawing once. I had no facility for it, so I'm stuck with taking pictures. But I don't know if they are art or something else... ;-}
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I think CGI is wonderful in its own way. But there is nothing like real cinematography done to perfection.
When you learn the tricks of the magician... there is no magic...
Some time back, I stumbled upon the makings of a movie having a large scene with bleachers filled with seats. In the movie it looked as if it was filled to capacity, every seat taken.
The "Magic Killer," was that they had to pay "Extras" $65.00 a day. But some smart person came up with the idea that if they used inflated dressed up dummies for $15.00 a day, they could accomplish the same thing.
They did discover that if they used all "dummies," the crowd was motionless and looked static. They came up with the idea that every third seat must have a live extra to give movement to the crowd...
Fast forward now to every crowd seen I see in a movie or on TV, and I think most of those are all just "dummies." The Magic... has gone.
Yes we were blessed with Alberto Vargas until 1982, but his hay-days were in the 40's.
The death of his wife Anna Mae in 1974 left him devastated and he stopped painting.
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BUT. I will defend to the death the right of an artist to create those images no matter how I feel about them personally. To me, if free speech isn't about artistic expression, then it is meaningless.
New here, but this pretty well says it all for me. Your choice may or may not be my choice, but I to too will stand and defend your right for your artistic choice.
Our choices on this are as endless as are we. We all have our own filters that have shaped our opinions and lives. From where we came, our religion or lack of, the times or periods we came from, the family values we grew up with. There is no end to the filters influencing our opinions on this colorful topic. If there were an end, maybe we would all agree on politics, religion, and exactly what Art is... For me Art, resides in the creation of something "new".
In the 40's & 50's you could be arrested for having pictures of nude people. Which is why that era gave us some of the greatest "Pin-up" artists painters, of all time. To name a few; Alberto Vargas, Boris Vallejo, Hajime Sorayama, Gil Elvgren, Olivia De Berardinis, Enoch Bolles. If the ladies were painted, it was Art, if they were photographed, it was pornography.
I believe this discussion will continue long after we are all gone.
Great discussion!