Elvgren

Elvgren

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<div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text_headlines"> <div> <strong>Gil's girls: The seminal pin-up artist</strong></div> <div>  </div> </div> <div class="description_text"> <div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text"> 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 <strong>Gil Elvgren</strong>€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.<br /> <br /> "Glamour is back... TASCHEN offers us a look back at these calendar and advertisement goddesses of which Gil Elvgren is king." <em>erotisme-fr.com, France</em></div> <div class="margin-bottom">  </div> <div class="margin-bottom"> Text in English, French, and German</div> </div>