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I selected this Picasso painting for my profile avatar. It is titled "Bacchanale," and was painted in 1955.
 

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BTW, LizVegas79, nice to meet another art lover from Las Vegas. (Okay, I'm in Henderson, but who's mapping.) Thank you for the great thread. There are definitely some nice pieces being shared.
 
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The pulp erotica of the 1930's such as this, had some interesting art as covers. I am not overly impressed with this cover for my own personal reasons, but pulp erotica of the 1930'-1950's combined two of my favorite creative arts: paintings and the written word.

Some covers of these cheap novels costing just a dime back then, were truly worthy of framing and displaying.
 
The pulp erotica of the 1930's such as this, had some interesting art as covers. I am not overly impressed with this cover for my own personal reasons, but pulp erotica of the 1930'-1950's combined two of my favorite creative arts: paintings and the written word.

Some covers of these cheap novels costing just a dime back then, were truly worthy of framing and displaying.
Nice history lesson. I'm curious to know where one would go to buy such novels during that period.
 
I selected this Picasso painting for my profile avatar. It is titled "Bacchanale," and was painted in 1955.
Nice painting.

I always loved John Colliers "Lady Godiva". While not a true nude, it is suggestive in so many ways. Not just of Lady Godiva nude on horseback, but her brazenness in humbling herself to stand up for what she believed which was repealing taxes for the people she loved. Not forced to do such a bold act, she did so because she had character, integrity and poise, and John Collier captured that well.
 
Nice history lesson. I'm curious to know where one would go to buy such novels during that period.
I am not sure.

I once wrote erotic stories for a now defunct website where we depicted modern editions to these old pulp erotica books. They were the porn of our great-grandfathers back in the 1930's. The site owner would draw the covers and I would write the short erotic stories just as they had been done back in the 1930's.

You might try ebay.

Movie posters from that era are available too for purchase and are frameable.
 
Nice painting.

I always loved John Colliers "Lady Godiva". While not a true nude, it is suggestive in so many ways. Not just of Lady Godiva nude on horseback, but her brazenness in humbling herself to stand up for what she believed which was repealing taxes for the people she loved. Not forced to do such a bold act, she did so because she had character, integrity and poise, and John Collier captured that well.
Thanks for the reference. I don't think I've ever seen that painting. After looking it up, I noticed that Collier painted her looking down, with her eyes open from what I could gather. Makes me wonder just what she's looking at and what she's thinking.
 
I am not sure.

I once wrote erotic stories for a now defunct website where we depicted modern editions to these old pulp erotica books. They were the porn of our great-grandfathers back in the 1930's. The site owner would draw the covers and I would write the short erotic stories just as they had been done back in the 1930's.

You might try ebay.

Movie posters from that era are available too for purchase and are frameable.
Hah, that would have been my grabdfather's generation. My mother was born in 1930.
 
Thanks for the reference. I don't think I've ever seen that painting. After looking it up, I noticed that Collier painted her looking down, with her eyes open from what I could gather. Makes me wonder just what she's looking at and what she's thinking.
I am not sure? Perhaps looking down in humility at the people she resided over?

Since Lady Godiva made her famous ride sometime between 1000 and 1086, there is not much detail about the account. Controversy surrounds her ride on whether she was truly nude, rode in the courtyard and not in the village, or even if the high taxes were for works of art, horses, or general taxation.

Lady Godiva and her husband were HUGE fans of art, and gifted the local church with numerous expensive works of art however, which is another reason to love what she did, for the reason she did.

The part about the peeping tom has been debunked years ago and was just added to the story about 600 years after it happened as embellishment.
 
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Wow, you guys didn't perv on ANY of my sexy art posts - I'm really impressed!
 
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"Why do I need to put my glasses on sweetie? Were you just looking at my friend Liz's art collection again?
You were weren't you? You're about to burst with appreciation again, aren't you? Okay, I'm ready. Fire away!" 😊
 
BTW, LizVegas79, nice to meet another art lover from Las Vegas. (Okay, I'm in Henderson, but who's mapping.) Thank you for the great thread. There are definitely some nice pieces being shared.

Thank you Pablo ;):giggle:

I love all YOUR contributions and discussion points. I wish I was half as knowledgeable about art as you are so I really really do appreciate you sharing your knowledge and expertise with the rest of us on here. It makes my silly little thread a little more classy which was my goal from the beginning.

:kiss:
Lizzie
 
The pulp erotica of the 1930's such as this, had some interesting art as covers. I am not overly impressed with this cover for my own personal reasons, but pulp erotica of the 1930'-1950's combined two of my favorite creative arts: paintings and the written word.

Some covers of these cheap novels costing just a dime back then, were truly worthy of framing and displaying.

Thanks CE for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us! I really do appreciate you and hope that you will continue to find things to comment about on here.

:kiss:
Lizzie
 
Well I knew you liked arousing pictures but you've got an eye for fine art, just like fine ladies, I'm seeing a pattern

So now I'm predictable? Is that what you're saying?

There's just no pleasing some guys I guess! ;) :giggle:
 
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