Monday 14 May 2012

Hot Wallpaper

Hot Wallpaper Biography
While most web searches for hot rod pinups and wallpapers wouldn’t expect to find a careful history of art nouveau in the research, the web of history is far-reaching, and the points of connection are as fascinating as the images themselves.  There are some hot rod enthusiasts who love the look of centerline wheels, and are looking for images of cars only, but in the hot rod world, it’s virtually impossible to avoid the pin up.  It is a part of the culture, and it’s also a big part of art history in general.  The roots are twining constantly between the popular and the underground, and the hidden sources are sometimes the most fruitful.

In general, there are three iconic images one will see when looking at hot rod wallpaper: a car, a woman, or a car and a woman.  There are some exceptions to this, of course.  However, even the wild popularity of cartoon rats and cars doesn’t reach the level of the pinup in terms of its currency.  This isn’t because hot rod enthusiasts are used to looking at women and cars together all the time, and that’s why it’s reflected in the art.  The gearheads of the world are certainly trained to recognize american racing wheels within a split second of seeing them, and the pinup comes from another kind of training altogether.

The female figure in art is one that has been a constant throughout the history of visual cultural practices, and it is the singularly most depicted subject.  It’s not that the pinup, or even innovations in art, like photography, has made it a more popular subject.  Its popularity precedes the hot rod, and the car, and perhaps even the wheel itself.  Pinup art is a continuation of a very long tradition of the object of desire as the subject matter.  As low culture and high culture come to reflect each other in the 20th century, and continue to reflect into the next century, it’s not possible to know necessarily which is speaking first, art history, or popular culture, and for some art historians, it doesn’t really matter.  For most hot rod fans, it may not matter so much either, except that an understanding of why the image is what it is, and the traditions from which it may come, can shed light on the desktop wallpaper, and make it that much more interesting.
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