Mexican Pinups - A Cinco De Mayo Special- The Pinup Blog Way


	Mexican Pinups - A Cinco De Mayo Special- The Pinup Blog Way

Tali99

5-6-2009 7:52 AM

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portrayal of women, dr lakra, vintage mexican pop culture, ethnic beauty, mexican pinup

Tali99 says:

Repulsed by portrayal of women as used in Cinco de Mayo ecards, The Pinup Blog went on a hunt for Sexy Mexican culture with self respect.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ff0099;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/934ada57-0f9d-48fd-a941-d5b285e399e0/E8C202F8-F937-431E-8B15-23DC4C857CC1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thepinupblog.com/files/Mexican_Pinups_Cinco_De_Mayo_Special.html" href="http://www.thepinupblog.com/files/Mexican_Pinups_Cinco_De_Mayo_Special.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thepinupblog.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thepinupblog.com/files/Mexican_Pinups_Cinco_De_Mayo_Special.html"><H4>Dr Lakra</H4><DIV><A title="Saatchi Gallery: Dr Lakra: Mexican pop culture" rel="external" href="http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/dr_lakra_special.htm"><IMG width="294" height="367" src="http://www.thepinupblog.com/files/dr_lakra_special.jpg" alt="" class="imageStyle" /></A> Akin to the stub
                           pinups there are these bits of
                           information about some pinups. The pinup
                           to the left, for instance is the
                           enhanced work of Dr Lakra. Much like
                           Rodolfo Federico Antonio Fraga, there is
                           <A title="Wikipedia: Dr Lakra" rel="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Lakra">little
                           information about Dr Lakra</A>:
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                      “Dr Lakra is a tattoo artist living and
                      working near Mexico City. In his parallel
                      activities here, however, Dr Lakra transfers
                      his draughtsmanship onto the idealised
                      figures in 50’s Mexican magazines. Pin-up
                      girls, wrestlers, beauties and cuties are
                      tattooed and 'enhanced' in ink with bats,
                      demons, spiders and the faces of pouting
                      vixens. Like pertinent graffiti, the relative
                      innocence of another era is politicised and
                      the images are infused with a relish for the
                      diabolical. Beautification or social
                      identification, the works are a carnival of
                      the grotesque. Kitschy erotica, ancient
                      ritual, and hallucinogenic visions are fused
                      in a collage of ideologies.”
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