Jay Ed is the artist behind the artwork on the cover of MDC’s „Metal Devil Cokes“ created in 1969. The artworks depicts the raise of the Stars and Stripes Banner on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. The 36-day assault resulted in 5.931 fallen Marines.
There were two American flags raised on top of Mount Suribachi, on February 23, 1945. The photograph Joe Rosenthal took was actually of the second flag-raising, in which a larger replacement flag was raised by different Marines than those who raised the first flag.[8]
Alberto Vargas‘ name has become synonymous with pin-up girls, but in the early 1940s, he was just a guy hired by „Esquire“ magazine to imitate departed star George Petty, who bolted over pay.
Candy Moore, 1979 … Inspiration for the cover of The Cars album Candy-O. The Concept: David Robinson, who handled art direction for The Cars, wanted a classic pin-up style cover.
The Location: A Ferrari dealership in Beverly Hills, California.
The Car & Model: Candy Moore draped herself over the hood of a Ferrari 365 GTC/4.
The Artist: Alberto Vargas—famous for his Esquire and Playboy work—came out of retirement to paint the final artwork based on this photo session
Robert Edward McGinnis (1926 – 2025) was an American artist and illustrator. McGinnis is known for his illustrations of more than 1,200 paperback book covers and over 40 movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (his first film poster assignment), Barbarella, and several James Bond and Matt Helm films.
Brian Donnelly is currently best known as the artist KAWS. KAWS is a New York-based artist who has made a name out of him designing limited edition toys and clothing. He is also a world-renowned artist who exhibits in museums and galleries internationally. His art stands somewhere between fine art and global commerce.
Self-taught artist, Jean-Jacques Royo (*1955, Pau, France) spent his childhood scribbling drawings during his school hours. His first encounter with painting took place in 1978 during a trip to India, a country he would return to ten times during his life and which would greatly influence his works. That year, he found himself penniless and, equipping himself with a box of white chalk, he began to draw on the ground, on the sidewalks of Bombay, zany characters that allowed him to earn a living. It was in 1987, after ten years traveling the world, that he settled in the Drôme and abandoned the walls and sidewalks in contact with the Flemish artist Denise Willem to create his first works on canvas. Jean-Jacques lives in Sanalhac in Ardèche, where he has his studio.
Raised in NYC, artist Joanna Chrysohoidis (1961- 2024) made profound statements through weaving, painting, and textile design. Her abstract paintings, composed of layered acrylic dots, built highly texturized, cosmic and geometric patterns, evoking a psychedelic, tactile experience. Immersed in these rhythmic patterns, viewers encounter her „Abundance Series“ as a joyous, ethereal manifestation of happiness and love.
M C Escher (1898 – 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. In the late twentieth century, he became more widely appreciated, and in the twenty-first century he has been celebrated in exhibitions around the world. His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations.
Alberto Vargas‚ name has become synonymous with pin-up girls, but in the early 1940s, he was just a guy hired by „Esquire“ magazine to imitate departed star George Petty, who bolted over pay.
Olivia De Berardinis (*1948), known worldwide simply as Olivia, is an American artist who is famous for her paintings of women, often referred to as pinup or cheesecake art. She has been working in this genre since the mid-1970s, becoming a contributor to Playboy in 1985. By June 2004, she was given her own monthly pinup page for the magazine that continued for many years, often appearing with captions written by Hugh Hefner.
George Petty was an American illustrator known for his series of pin-ups known as Petty Girls which he did for Esquire magazine. The Petty Girl was a coquettish, idealized woman whose legs were unnaturally long, and who was featured on magazine centerfolds, billboards, and calendars for companies such as Ridgid Tools. Born George Brown Petty IV on April 27, 1894 in Abbeville, LA, Petty received his formal training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under Ruth Van Sickle Ford, before briefly attending the Académie Julian in Paris. Petty’s character was so popular during his lifetime that MGM Studios made a comedy-musical film about her in 1950. The artist died on July 21, 1975 in San Pedro, CA.
Roy Lichtenstein’s Study for Interior with Skyline, is part of a series of works depicting living rooms and bedrooms which the artist executed in the early 1990s in a variety of mediums, including paintings, collages and prints. As one of the last major series produced before the artist’s death, these paintings represent a culmination of Lichtenstein’s method of appropriating images from popular media. Seductive commercial images of the modern home interior formed the inspirational basis of the Interior series. While Lichtenstein served as artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in the spring of 1989, he spotted a billboard furniture advertisement that triggered his scavenges into the local Yellow Pages for interior images of rooms. Lichtenstein focuses on a subject that has long captured the fascination of Pop artists: the myth of blissful bourgeois domesticity. The seminal work of Pop art, Richard Hamilton’s Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?, 1956, depicted the living room collaged with the accoutrements of the idea middle-class lifestyle as it appeared in prevailing media. Both Lichtenstein and Hamilton magnify the artificiality of the idyllic home to humorously expose the false consumerist notion that the accumulation of material goods engenders happiness.
Unlike Hamilton’s collage, Lichtenstein’s collage depicts a pristine environment free of people and advertisements. Carefully planned yet uninhabited, Lichtenstein’s interiors can be seen as abstract interpretations of the subject. As in a magazine layout, every design detail is accounted for and each element sits neatly in its place. Despite the orderliness of the room, the space lacks a key ingredient of the domestic scene -the personal human element. Lichtenstein reveals the alienation sometimes experienced in conventional contemporary life and comments upon the predictability and uniformity among bourgeois American homes.
Lichtenstein places recognizably Contemporary art within this particular interior, including two paintings that undeniably echo his own style. In fact, art is a regular element within these chic interiors, instantly recognizable as luxurious commodities as much as they are tasteful, expected and conventional props within environments such as these. The art is relegated to a part of the calculated decoration, and reduced to a mood-inducing pleasantry as well as a sign of status. Study for Interior with Skyline is cleverly ironic, as well as bitingly sardonic. Lichtenstein’s wry assessment of contemporary culture manifests his goal of creating art that reflects a witty and insightful sensibility.
In 2006 Study for Interior with Skyline, signed and dated ‚rf Lichtenstein ’92‘ (on the reverse) graphite, acrylic on paper and printed paper collage on board 40 x 54¼ in. (101.6 x 137.7 cm) sold for 912,000.00 $. Executed in 1992.
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