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Louis K. Meisel
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Gil Elvgren
Автор: Louis K. Meisel Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2013 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20162018-08-03
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Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique — which earned him a reputation as The Norman Rockwell of cheesecake — involved photographing models and then painting them into gorgeous hyper-reality, with longer legs, more flamboyant hair and gravity-defying busts, and in the process making them the perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private.
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