Russ Meyer, director of Pin-up Girls

Let’s talk about movies and ultravixens sexploitation director Russ Meyer. Best known for his obsession with breasts, he began his career as a photographer for the magazine Playboy in the 1950s, and in that role filled several of the magazine’s middle pages.

As a sleazemeister film maker,  “nudie” director Russ Meyer was  famous for his girls in bikinis, ie, well endowed Amazons in films like Mudhoney, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill!,  Beneath the Valley of the Dolls, and Under the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens.

In the decade of the 1950’s, this director made a few films including Burlesque! In the movies, Entitled Teaserama as well as Variatease, burlesque queens Tempest Storm and Lili St. Cyr, joined the silver screen with pin-up star Bettie Page!

His most famous film stars included busty Kitten Natividad and Tura Satana, girls who were famous pin-ups in their own right. Tura Satana was a dancer before being discovered by Meyer.

His Femme Fatale pinup girls are famous poster girls used to market 60′ and 70′ bikini softcore sleaze … In the 1975 movie, Supervixens, Russ Meyer created a fabulous combination  of violence, sexy grinding and comedy….

Meyer seems to have been  permanently fixated on huge breasts! In fact, those  large breasted women  was a central trademark in all of his films. He discovered many actresses who were naturally well endowed, and became very famous. Russ Meyer Stars included: Kitten Natividad, Tura Satana, Lorna Maitland, and Uschi Digard.

When viewing a Meyer film,  with the physically and sexually overwhelming female characters, you may want to think of them as being  placed in their own separate genre. And while it may seem he presents women as sex objects, notice that they are all more powerful than their male counterparts in these films. So does that make him a feminist filmmaker? Was it conscious or unconscious? Today, we should just enjoy his films as they are – beautiful  pin-up girls and all…

Stacy Lande is a Los Angeles based artist, and her pin up art is most often placed in the lowbrow category. Her new website, about all things pinup, can be seen at http://www.i-love-pin-up-girls.com. Her book, The Red Box: The Phantasma-Allegorical Portraits of Stacy Lande, from Last Gasp press, features introductions from Robert Williams and Frank Kozik.

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Robert Williams and His Surrealist Pin Up Girls
By Stacy Lande

Here is my chance to talk about my favorite artist of all time, Robert Williams. I was first exposed to his work back in art school, when I managed to get my hands on the infamous Zap Comics! I was knocked out when I first saw the erotic comic stuff of Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, and of course, Robert himself.

In the mid 1980’s, I was again to be stunned when I saw his paintings at the Zero One Gallery in Los Angeles. He would have to be one of my major influences, so how lucky was I to have to have such a famous artist write the forward to my art book, The Red Box.

Mr. Williams has a long history of involvement in the American hot rod culture, and he was involved early on with Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, and Ratfink.

He started Juxtapoz Magazine in 1994, and is credited with starting the lowbrow art movement… a movement that began with hot rod art and “kustom kulture”, but has grown to include so much more.

To say that Williams’ art is pin up art is only part of the equation… it is cinematic, film noir, and heroic on the scale of 19th French salon painting. Here is a lowbrow artist with a great fine art pedigree. His work is included in many high profile art collections, and there is a waiting list to collect any of his pieces!

His psychedelic art includes devil girls, supervixens, femme fatales, punk rock girls, and everything phantasmagoric. Then he throws in the hot rod art, and it’s quite a grand scale surrealist painting!

His most famous art work is probably his 1990’s Appetite for Destruction album cover for the band Guns and Roses.

About the author: Stacy Lande is a Los Angeles based artist, and her pin up art is most often placed in the lowbrow catagory. Her book, THE RED BOX, from Last Gasp press, features introductions from Robert Williams and Frank Kozik. Stacy has had a lifelong obsession with pin up girls, and her erotic paintings explore the more allegorical side of pinups.

Her subjects are femme fatales and devil girls, and her fascination with the succubus has prompted her work to be described as “predatory pinups”. Stacy’s paintings have been featured in magazine articles, notably Juxtapoz, Detour, and Hot Rod Deluxe; films, notably Gone in 60 Seconds starring Angelina Jolie and Nicholas cage; and art books, such as Weirdo Deluxe, from Chronicle Books, and Vicious, Delcious, and Ambitious, from Schiffer Books.

Article Source:Robert Williams Zap Comix Article

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Robert Williams – Zap Comix and Hot Rods related articles…

Robert Williams: Juxtapoz | Daily Art Fixx

Williams published his first book, The Lowbrow Art of Robert Williams in 1979. The title of the book was meant as a statement on the current “Highbrow” tone of the art world and how Williams’ work did not fit in. …

Publish Date: 03/02/2011 7:03

http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2011/03/02/robert-williams-juxtapoz/