ATTN: pin up art enthusiasts!
one of my senior thesis (for my adv digital photography) is going to be pin up art. LIsted below i have included a rough draft of my artist statement. Please feel free to read it and give me some feedback in the form of ideas. big or small.
also i'm looking for models!!!! LOTS OF MODELS! anyone interested let me know. seriously.. i have to start this weekend. (nudity isnt required so dont let that scare you off. )
artist statement:
I have been a fan of pin up art for many years. The human form has always fascinated me and I relate pin up work to sophistication and class. Growing up in this day in age, it’s very easy to come across explicit material. When I think (and see) pin up art, I’m enjoying it for the beauty and tease of the genre it first originated from. I also see strength in the art form. A pin-up girl is a woman whose physical attractiveness would entice one to place a picture of her on a wall - without having to take off every inkling of clothing - if any at all. I put a lot of thought in this and I believe the direction I’m going to take my pin up photography will stay within the same lines of sophistication (while glamorizing the “pretty girl”) - yet it will be taken with a slightly different approach. I want my art work to be a collection of female stereotypes - not women as defined by men but women as they have been brought up to perceive themselves. I want to range anywhere between the housewife to the sex kitten, and everything in between. I want to include irony and underline a sense of contradictions between modern womanhood and what is and was to be expected of women. The themes will be instilled with humor and have a thin line between exhibitionism and art as well as fashion and fetishism.
also i'm looking for models!!!! LOTS OF MODELS! anyone interested let me know. seriously.. i have to start this weekend. (nudity isnt required so dont let that scare you off. )
artist statement:
I have been a fan of pin up art for many years. The human form has always fascinated me and I relate pin up work to sophistication and class. Growing up in this day in age, it’s very easy to come across explicit material. When I think (and see) pin up art, I’m enjoying it for the beauty and tease of the genre it first originated from. I also see strength in the art form. A pin-up girl is a woman whose physical attractiveness would entice one to place a picture of her on a wall - without having to take off every inkling of clothing - if any at all. I put a lot of thought in this and I believe the direction I’m going to take my pin up photography will stay within the same lines of sophistication (while glamorizing the “pretty girl”) - yet it will be taken with a slightly different approach. I want my art work to be a collection of female stereotypes - not women as defined by men but women as they have been brought up to perceive themselves. I want to range anywhere between the housewife to the sex kitten, and everything in between. I want to include irony and underline a sense of contradictions between modern womanhood and what is and was to be expected of women. The themes will be instilled with humor and have a thin line between exhibitionism and art as well as fashion and fetishism.