Marilyn Conover was a very successful illustrator during the '60s and '70s. About four years ago, when she was 84, I interviewed her over the phone. Her frank, forthright and often intensely negative recollections of her career startled me. In all the interviews I'd conducted to that point (and since) I'd never encountered anything like it. My intention this week is not to cast a pall over a time many of us hold up as the last great era in illustration, but rather to honestly share a different perspective of someone who lived and worked in those times. For better or for worse here is Marilyn Conover; unvarnished, unsentimental, and unapologetic. ~ Leif LP: Can you recall what year it was when you and your husband [Hendrick Conover] moved to New York? MC: '61. LP: Ok, so that's around the same time you got the Reader's Digest job that I have... MC: Oh, it's in there some place. Yes! I remember I was doing one of the illustrations on a packing box in my studio. So yeah, that was '61, '62. LP: Marilyn, I'm glad I found you and I really, really appreciate you taking the time to tell me all these details... MC: Well bless your heart. They were a wonderful bunch; Joyce Ballantyne was a darling, Gil Elvgren was a darling, I mean we used to be up at their houses all the time. He was a sweetheart but they all drank like crazy. MC: Oh my god... but generous - at thirty five he was taking everybody in the studio to lunches at one of the jazzy restaurants all the time. I mean he lived like a little chubby king and he had these little chubby hands of his and he'd paint these beautiful girls! LP: (Laughing) Wow! MC: And you say his originals are now going for two hundred -- I hope to god his two boys reaped some reward from that - no, I bet they belong to the, uh... LP: Brown & Bigelow? The calendar company? MC: Oh my god. And his kids are probably just making an average living. And they [Elvgren's originals] sell for up to three hundred thousand? LP: Yeah, he's one of the most collected pin-up artists in the world now. There are several giant, heavy coffee table books of his pin-ups now, and every year they reprint them on all kinds of calendars and other merchandise. MC: And that crappy work to look at?! To be buying and hanging those paintings?! Where would you put them? In your bar? In your bathroom?! LP: Well, there's a lot of interest and affection in a nostalgic way for that era. I mean that's part of the reason I like it. I admire the quality of the work that was done back then. MC: What is the point of your obsession? I mean what are you doing with it? Just to do it? LP: I do it because I discovered there were all these people like yourself who came before me in this profession who did amazing work but are largely forgotten and I just didn't think that was right. I thought it was a shame that people like myself who were graduating out of art school had never heard of Al Parker or Joe Bowler or any of these artists. MC: Joe Bowler was another guy who did just incredible work. LP: Oh yeah. MC:I knew him as well, in New York. (Below, Joe Bowler illustration, Saturday Evening Post, 1962) LP: Yeah, well, so I figured, if I hadn't heard of these guys then I knew for a fact most of my peers wouldn't have heard of them either and... I wanted to correct that. I wanted to make sure that all the people like you and all these others - MC: Well what are you gonna do, write a book? LP: No, no, I write about it every day on the internet, on my blog. MC: Well good luck honey. And what do you do for a living? You're an illustrator? LP: I'm an illustrator, yeah. I do finished illustration and storyboards. Now I do mostly storyboards because there's not that huge of a market for finished illustration anymore. MC: No there isn't. There isn't. You look in your magazines and you don't see illustration anymore. LP: No. No, most of us who are able to make a pretty good living at it now do what's broadly called "concept art." Every sort of artwork you can imagine for the preparatory stage of something else, whether it's an ad or a movie or a video game... all that stuff has to be visualized before they do the final version of it. MC: I see. Well bless your heart. Well good luck with all you're doing and um... I don't think I could be of much help anymore. I think I told you everything. Unless you have something very specific you can call me. But I don't want to go back there. Ugh. You have no idea how funny I feel physically right now. Ugh. LP: Really? I'm sorry... MC: No! Isn't that funny? Because it brought up those difficult years - I mean for me. It was the pressure - I mean, with all those competitors, you had to be good. You had to be. And the cream of it was, at that time illustrators were working for Time magazine, doing covers and that I was very proud of. I was separated by then and worked alone so much that when my first cover - you wouldn't even know him - the energy czar from the '60s - it was my first Time cover. And I even got called by one of the older illustrators to tell me what he thought of the integrity of the painting and "blah, blah, blah," you know. MC: So one day I just got on the train from Westport and went in to New York and walked all around Grand Central Station and saw my painting on every newsstand. I just thought, "I'll be damned." And I didn't really feel anything... because of all the difficulties I'd been through. And I looked around and I just thought, "well, there it is, that's that." And I just got on the train and went back home. LP: Wow... that was William Simon. MC: How'd you know? LP: I just looked it up on the internet. I just typed your name into Google Image Search and one of the first images that came up was that Time magazine cover. MC: You mean you can see the picture? LP: Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. It's got a bright orange background... MC: And there was also one when Patty Hearst went missing - I did the Patty Hearst... LP: Oh, well I'll search for that one as well. MC: ...and then the other one was the gal who wrote... oh my god, she wrote one of the big books at the time... oh well, it doesn't make any difference. [Marilyn was thinking of Colleen McCullough, author of The Thornbirds. I was unable to locate a scan or photo of that cover ~ L] MC: Well, honey, if you need anything specific, if you think I can help, I'd be happy to. Ok? LP: Thank you so much, Marilyn. You have a great day. MC: Ok, you too, bye bye. * The original paintings from Marilyn Conover's three Time magazine covers were donated by the publisher to the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery. Thanks to Heritage Auctions for allowing me to use some of the Gil Elvgren scans from their site in today's post.
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PLEASE READ FULL ITEM DESCRIPTION BEFORE YOU PLACE YOUR ORDER! These are fabric blocks, not fabric YARDAGE or PANELS. Colorfast/Not an iron on Transfer. It arrives with a paper backing that you peel off. Vintage Retro 50's Pin up Ladies 9 - 2 1/4" x 3" Images Printed on 1 - 8 1/2" x 11" Quilting Fabric Block Sewing Crafting projects fb 550 You will receive 9 SMALL images approximately 2 1/4" x 3" plus an extra 1/4" around each image. Printed on 1 - 8 1/2" x 11" Fabric block. It's printed onto high quality 200 thread count cotton fabric. They are made to order with each image printed in pigment inks on the fabric. The watermark will not appear on a fabric block. They are beautiful as an embellishment on pillows, art quilts and quilt blocks or wearable art such as a jean jacket, T-shirt or tote... Fabric blocks are also good for altered books, collage art of mixed media projects. Fabric Blocks are easy to use! They can be sewn, used with fabric glue or fusible materials. Add beads or other embellishment for extra stunning look! Complete instructions are included with your purchase. Thanks for taking the time to view my items and please check back again as I often add new items throughout a week. Shipping: Item will be shipped within 24 hours upon receipt of cleared payment. The only exceptions to this would be purchases paid for on weekends and holidays, in which case it will go out on the next available business day. Please feel free to contact us with any ??? and we will try to respond quickly. We will happily exchange feedback with you when you receive your items.
Tradicionais em capas de livros ou cartazes do cinema, é bem provável que a primeira imagem que lhe venha no pensamento é algum linda mulher...
Quando uma pessoa adota um determinado estilo, quer seja punk ou patricinha, ela está dizendo ao mundo como quer ser encarada, e se esforça por manter um determinado padrão característico desse estilo. Pessoas assim valorizam sua imagem e tentam se destacar da multidão, caprichando numa produção completa ou apenas em alguns detalhes. Um estilo que recentemente tem apaixonado o universo feminino é o pin-up, originário dos anos 40/50 e marcado por uma grande sensualidade. Não é difícil adotar esse estilo, dado que atualmente existem muitas peças de roupa próximas dele e, para a ajudar, preparámos este artigo umComo.com.br acerca de como usar o estilo pin-up no dia a dia. Continue lendo!
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¡Sin lugar a dudas, llamaron la atención! Y cómo no hacerlo, si esa era toda la intención. Un estilo sugerente pero sutil que como gran icono de esa época fue revolucionario y causo gran controversia. Desde sus orígenes en los 40 los soldados comenzaron a utilizar fotos o dibujos de las espectaculares Chicas Pin Up, provocativas y muy coloridas con el fin de alegrar y matizar un poco los días grises que se vivían durante la guerra. De igual manera, pintaban los aviones y tanques militares con divertidos dibujos (Conocido como NOSE ART).
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