How girls who Lost their Panties made Art Fram a famous Artist

Chicago artist Art Frahm, who worked in the pin-up style, became famous for women losing their panties. It was the series of paintings "Falling Panties", created for the calendar of the company "Joseph Hoover and Sons" (Joeseph C. Hoover and Sons) in 1957, that became the beginning of his success, which lasted for more than 20 years.

There are a huge number of paintings and illustrations in the archive of this wonderful artist, but this series is best known in the USA. It is the girls who are in trouble because of the incident with underwear, which is called "gone" by the American consumer. The secret of success is simple — in the USA of the 40-50 years, the plot "a girl in trouble" was exploited with might and main, which was loved by cinematographers, writers and, of course, artists.

According to the canons of this sandart plot, a pretty girl gets into an unpleasant situation and a handsome courageous hero comes to the rescue. Of course, after that comes love and everything ends with a typical American happy ending.

In Art Fram's paintings, girls are not helped, but there is always a man nearby who reacts positively to the incident. Perhaps it is he who will come to the aid of the confused beauty? The author suggests the continuation to the viewer to think it out on his own.

All the works of the "Falling Panties" series are united by several common details. Firstly, the heroines of all the paintings are beautiful long-legged girls with doll faces, on which fright is expressed especially vividly. Secondly, in most cases, the heroines are holding bags of food in their hands, from which the contents fall out. And thirdly, everywhere, with rare exceptions, celery appears among the products. What this vegetable product symbolizes is not clear, but it is obvious that it was not added by chance by the master.

It can also be noted that the author was not particularly "steamed" about underwear — sometimes it seems that he just "copied" pink and white panties from one job to another.

We must pay tribute to Art's imagination — problems with panties in his paintings occur in a variety of situations.

It is also hardly an accident that many men in the paintings of the series are "on duty". These are policemen, drivers, road workers and concierges.

Dogs that are next to the heroines and which should also be paid attention to, give special touching to the works — they are also funny, like their mistresses.

Women in the role of minor characters rarely appear, after all, it is the presence of representatives of the stronger sex that gives the piquancy of the situation.

Today, Art Farm's pin-up paintings, both with "falling panties" and from other series, are valuable not only for their masterful execution and unusual plots, but also for the entourage. Large cars, buildings, interiors and many different objects depicted by the author have long become history and cause nostalgia among those who found them and interest among those who were born much later and found a completely different America.