Anyone Else Love 1950s Art?

I've always loved the more "realistic" (vs cartoony) look of the 1950s artwork. Anyone else a big fan of this decade's art in general?

 

Does this count? (this was the safest-for-work Gil Elvgren I could find):

 

Yes, I love the 50's illustration style...the more "real" the better.
It seems to evoke a better time, although I doubt times were as great as depicted.

 

Paint by numbers!

 

50s Art Deco Home Decor

 

Anne Taintor's work revives the 50's look with snark - this one is super realistic because I remember my grandmother had this very sink in the 50's.

 

You'll want to check out Plan59 - http://www.plan59.com/

Of course there will always be exceptions but as a rule, I tend to love '50s commercial art. At the core of it, I suspect, is that it comes from aspiring to a beautiful, peaceful and happy life and tends to be selling on that premise. What a thought, huh.

Which means it subsequently became something to be derided, snarked up, lampooned as kitsch... Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes we're the joke.

 

They are all pretty cool!

 

The album covers of the period bordered on the avant garde. Some even passed that border. Richard Powers' cover art for the RCA 'shaded dog' release Symphonie Fantastique is the epitome of 1950's cool.

 

Posted this before I think, but here's a couple I can find that I made a wallpaper of: a wonderously, impossibly glamorous ad from Motorola (maker of the console hi-fi that's in there somewhere) and a good times illustration taken from the booklet for the Capitol comp Ultra-Lounge: TV Town.


1961_motorola_ad_1440x900 by apileocole, on Flickr


tvtown1440 by apileocole, on Flickr

 

I love that cover!

 

I really like these, especially the bottom one, with the house in the background.
There's the famous lp cover of "Come Fly With Me" and the "Do You Remember When" thread has throbbin tower's pic of the 'Firedome Sportsman'(post 29) too.

 

How about the cover for Time Out?

 

More bounce to the ounce? What were they putting in it back then?

 

I do love the 50's illustrations. I love the cartoon style too, especially the UPA cartoons, and some of the Wonder Books. Illustration was still highly valued and the artists knew how to push things in just the right way to get the emphasis they wanted. They aren't truly realistic, they are better than reality.

 

The Springs Mills textile company, which "owned" the small towns around where I grew up, was famous for its "racy" ads in the early 50s. The most infamous was the totally un-PC "a buck well spent on a Springmaid sheet" ad. My parents had a deck of playing cards that were illustrated with the same pinup images used in the ads.

 

I love her stuff....we have several 'fridge magnets like that....

 

Now that's a good one ^^^^and a great example of cars being painted three-tone at that time...

 

Wow, those Spring Hill ads are nuts!