Emerald Eye Beauty
Emerald Eye Beauty by Peruvian Artist Alberto Vargas (1896 – 1982); for his alluring and exquisite pin-up girl art and considered to be the most famous of the pin-up artist genre.
This is one of Alberto Vargas classic nudes, that was covered in a flat yellow-green color with no background; I removed the flat color and toned up the image to develop the natural skin tones of the model.
I then decided to create a background using my art nouveau fractal portrait composition Arzriani; a simplified version of the original piece Arzriani Queen Of The Meteor Wars.
This was done as an inverted overlay and as a bump map of the same image, creating an embossed background.
I then modified the models hair color from an off blonde color to pink, making her a rose haired sweetie, which better suits the models skin tones, green eyes and the background, which is a mix of gold, rose, violet, red, orange, yellow, brown, grey and white colors.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a canvas print online.
Info Below From I-Wikipedia.org
Born in Arequipa, Peru, he was the son of noted Peruvian photographer Max T. Vargas. Alberto Vargas moved to the United States in 1916 after studying art in Europe, Zurich, and Geneva prior to World War I.
While he was in Europe he came upon the French magazine La Vie Parisienne, with a cover by Raphael Kirchner, which he said was a great influence on his work.
His early career in New York included work as an artist for the Ziegfeld Follies and for many Hollywood studios. Ziegfeld hung his painting of Olive Thomas at the theater, and she was thought of as one of the earliest Vargas Girls.
Vargas’ most famous piece of film work was for the poster of the 1933 film The Sin of Nora Moran, which shows a near-naked Zita Johann in a pose of desperation. The poster is frequently named one of the greatest movie posters ever made.
He became widely noted in the 1940s as the creator of iconic World War-II era pin-ups for Esquire magazine known as “Vargas Girls.” Between 1940 futhi 1946 Vargas produced 180 paintings for the magazine.
The nose art of many American and Allied World War II aircraft was inspired and adapted from these Esquire pin-ups, as well as those of George Petty, and other artists.
