Island Girl
Island Girl 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 Vargas early pin-up girl illustration of a slight erotic look to it; with a beautiful raven hair brunette wearing skirt made of green and white leaves, and having 2 large yellow flowers with red trimming on the right side of her head and one on the left; as well as another three resting up against her left forearm as she holds one of the three with her right hand.
Since this was originally a base image to be added to a magazine cover; I decided to add a background kaleidoscope made from one of my fractal compositions, and for the coloring of the background I used one of my fractal portraits.
I then embossed the pin-up girl and added slight shadowing to give her a slight 3D look. The border was made directly from the image, with using emboss effects as well.
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 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 and 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.
