http://coca-cola-art.com/2008/10/08/gil-elvgren/ A Celebration of Coca-Cola Art, Ads & Graphics. Coke Art News, Artist Interviews, Exclusive Wallpapers & Free Vectors. Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:52:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://coca-cola-art.com/2008/10/08/gil-elvgren/#comment-376 Wed, 27 May 2009 03:03:15 +0000 http://cokeart.wordpress.com/?p=529#comment-376 This picture exerts a very powerful impression in a dimension additional to the sexual. The surrealist idea of a compulsive image is actually that of the fabric hooked on a nail (or other extremely ‘opposite’ or functionally, materially contrasting item.) The confluence of the soft, billowy, mobile, new, feminine and relatively transient red material, with the hard, immobile, rigid, old, masculine (made by men who are now absent) and relatively permanent grey/white material (symbol of age and death, as well as the superficially phallic). A minute or two after seeing this picture, I semi unconsciously double-checked my surroundings: something on the computer, my own desk, my clothes, something felt “out”. I was looking for something wrong in any number of other metaphorical and physical ways. It seemed to represent the confusion of the day, or any days, of silly mistakes, of things overlooked. I am still impressed at the strength of that image, how it caught me off guard. So I resolve the issue, and symbolically rescue the maiden, by writing this solution to the dilemma.

]]> http://coca-cola-art.com/2008/10/08/gil-elvgren/#comment-205 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:49:45 +0000 http://cokeart.wordpress.com/?p=529#comment-205 cool article! It’s hard to find good quality pictures by him

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