Thursday, 3 March 2016

Alberto Vargas Critical Study FMP

Alberto Vargas is a well known pin up artist who helped define the iconic image of pin up art. His work has a unique style which shows soft colours using light tones creating elegance and beauty in the female image, such as the porcelain type skin he uses for many of his models. His illustrations of the female body are much more accurate with the slight lines and creases which women of all sizes naturally have, although Vargas uses slim-build women as his models. Unlike othe pon up artists, Vargas deems to take his illustrative work close to realism with his incredible accuracy of the body and face. His art not only seems to push the boundary of pin u, but the standard of art in the 50s period alone. 
Vargas has created a very realistic piece of a red headed model.  She has a full shaped face and smooth detailed facial features, which are like that of an average woman, however, the smooth and soft looking pocelain skin is quite spot on and the shadowing/tones are perfect due to its simplicity. It seems to be relistic in these aspects, it is one of the best pin up pieces I have seen, hence why I have chosen to recreate it. There is a light glow radiating from just the face of the model and part of the chest throught the skin, using innocence as a key role showing slight cleavage. It is fascinating how Vargas has managed to create such beauty in an illustration and make it look natural. Many of his works are done in water colour and amazingly he manages neat lines, edges, shading and tones in this piece. From this piece I hope to capure the natural beauty Vergas has created. 
I believe my version of this piece takes a very similar shape to the vergas piece. The colours are soft like the original, however the shading is much sharper than the original piece, there could have been a much more smoother and blended style to it by creating shades from the original skin tone. It is quite realistic and correctly coloured. I believe that although the original is water colour I have done well in acrylic. The facial features don't look too rushed like I tend to do and the eyes are almost coreectly sized. The lips are well placed on the face and shaded correctly with nice highlights in two tones. The nose is good and it is one of the best I have done up to this point considering it's size, structure, and placement, I believe in the future I could develop it further by simply sketching to help my portraits be more accurate for my final pieces of work. Moving on to the hair, there isn't much smoothness or fine detail that Vargas shows in his work but the shape is quite similar to the original. I maybe need to work on being able to get small detail using a thinner brush. Maybe next time I could also try using water paints , which aren't my strongest point, to recreate his work, rather than acrylic. 

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