Oddly enough, posters and posters in the “Soviet pin-up” genre did not appear in Soviet times, but today. Of course, with that attitude to art, it was hard to imagine that strict critics allowed the broad masses to frivolous pictures depicting beautiful, cheerful, graceful girls in “risky situations”. Our woman should have been a good worker and a great wife and mother, not a seducer.
Style story
The Pin-Up genre (a poster or poster with the image of a very frankly dressed girl who pins on the wall) appeared, as is commonly believed, in the 40s of the last century. The peak of its development occurred in the prewar years. The Golden Age of Pin-Up is the time when trade managers realized that all products sell better if their ads are accompanied by a beautiful female body. This genre continues to develop rapidly. His aesthetics permeate all spheres of human life: cosmetics, clothing, behavior.
Soviet cartoons
When the animated film “The Snow Queen” was released, it was unlikely that any of the audience looked for the features of a vamp woman in her: impregnable, fatal, cold and full of temptation. It is not known whether the artists had thoughts about creating an image in the style of “Soviet pin-up”, but it obviously turned out, as later happened with the uninhibited Atamansha from the “Bremen Town Musicians”.
And the tender princess is the same Soviet pin-up, only quite hidden, since there is no frank seduction in her. But the elements of the image - freedom in a certain framework, beautiful long legs, hair fluttering in the wind - are already present.
Uncle Fedor’s mom, Rimma, with her hourglass figure and charming mouth, erotic glasses, who did not want to captivate the bulls in Prostokvashino, could have been popular in life.
But absolutely wonderful, the Soviet pin-up seduced Carlson and forced him to cheat and strive to look after the beauty that appeared on the TV screen. A thick mass of flowing hair, amazingly blue, like that of Malvina, who left only one huge eye open, a half-open mouth and a naked shoulder, shocked the plump hero.
By the way, the correct Malvina from “The Adventures of Pinocchio” is a miracle both good and seductive. No wonder everyone loves and obeys her. These were the heroines of Soviet pin-up cartoons from different times.
Soviet poster
The artist Andrei Tarusov works in the same style, who creates postcards, posters, posters and takes themes from the bygone Soviet reality or Hollywood from the time of his greatness. He lives in Los Angeles and collaborates with American studios.
The artist also has a series designed for employees in the Russian army. He has heroines of the Great Patriotic War and films of Soviet times. He dedicated the men he depicted to women in honor of the holiday of March 8. For them, he took models of ancient heroes, David for example. Signatures on postcards are the same: "For one day we will try to become better." The artist also reworked images of heroines from Soviet cartoons, giving them a touch of eroticism. And in the spirit of the times he drew a calendar with views of the Crimea and gorgeous beauties on the beach.
Artist from Tver
Vladimir Kazak, as he himself tells, was born in 1973 and graduated from the Tver School in 1995, having received the specialty of an artist-designer. At first, his activity was to illustrate children's books, but, having mastered the computer, he changed jobs. Little time was left for drawing. Then V. Cossack set sail.
His work in the field that we are considering in the article is not numerous, but interesting and served with humor.
Olga and Alexey Drozdov
It was not possible to collect information about this talented couple, but from the presented selection of works it is clear that they started as illustrators of children's books. They perfectly possess bright color.
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pin-up images, this is absolutely necessary. Their work is pleasing to the eye. Take a look and see for yourself.
Artist from the Volga
Valery Barykin was born in Ivanovo, spent his youth in Dzerzhinsk and lives in Nizhny Novgorod. He took a pencil, a brush and paints from childhood, but did not study at art schools. When he realized that drawing attracted him the most, he graduated from a theater school and became a props artist. However, he worked in newspapers and magazines, a little in advertising. The first time he made just a collage: he took a socialist poster and attached a beauty to it. So began Valery Barykin. The pin-up turned out to be funny. The ideological component of the poster is gone, and it acquired a new sound. This interested the artist, and he continued to search in this direction. His idea received, as the artist modestly says, a rather lively response. Most likely, these were rave reviews, not hypocrites, of course, but people from flesh and blood. Valery Barykin gradually, despite the resistance of individual viewers, developed his own style - ironic.
He draws Soviet posters in pin-up style and just illustrations in this genre. It all started with the poster “Respect the work of the cleaners”. Then friends and acquaintances began to come in with stacks of old magazines, so material was collected on socialist realism. To the selected topic, the artist drew up a windy beauty (this is a very simplified explanation of his technique), and a magnificent poster was obtained. V. Barykin is now making illustrations that resemble
Norman Rockwell. The artist at one time painted everyday scenes from the life of Americans. Barykin does staging work, developing and changing his style somewhat.
It's nice to get a funny postcard as a gift or to attach an ironic colorful poster to the wall, in which everything is a little brighter than in life, a little more perfect and most importantly, not too serious.