My Creative Idol

Creativity has always been a quality I am proud to have. When I create something my creativity has most like a splatter painting because all my creativity is all over the place. When it comes to who inspires me to be creative this person does not have the same type of creativity as myself but she has shown what a lot of hard work can pull off and also the different creativity that can come out of a paintbrush. Olivia De Beradinis is not only the top pin up artist of her time but also my aunt. Olivia does not only paint the women but adds a different setting for each of the girls. Each painting has a unique creative scene or aspect to it. She has painted enough paintings of Betty Page (a famous pin up girl from the 20s) that she was able to make a whole book of paintings of Betty Page and none of the same. There are paintings of geishas, sailor girls, women of the night, and so many other creative landscapes.

A lot of Olivia’s artwork tries to bring themes from familiar scenes. She uses Contrast and Release to make her paintings more real. An example of this is Olivia’s artwork of Geishas. In these photos Olivia uses some artwork that is part of Japanese culture but then she adds her own part in such as a Tiger with big eyes to show that this is not an actual Japanese culture painting. She uses a Japanese woman as a Geisha, this women is where the biggest similarities and differences are. In this painting she has the women dressed as a geisha but has added touches to how the women is dressed to make it her own painting.

Olivia’s artwork explores Tension and Affinity by showing a much more dramatic way of different real life images. One of my favorite paintings Olivia painted is of a woman as a night cat. She is sprawled out on a tree just like a cat would be, but instead of a cat it is a women. The way Olivia shows the difference between it being a cat and a woman is by enhancing the women’s features but adding cat parts such as adding cat ears and whiskers. The women in the picture are sprawled out across the tree leisurely almost sleeping just as a cat would be doing. All of these things are painted to show the women as a cat but there is also a sexual appeal added with how the women is drawn and sprawled to keep it in the pin up art.

            In Olivia’s paintings she always leaves room to have your own opinion but she also pushes her own opinion through by using Objective and Subjective. In all of Olivia’s paintings she has her own opinion what the women is suppose to be or their background story. She shows her idea by painting the image and giving them their own story such as the sailor girl, or the football player. In these images Olivia may have had her own idea for what these woman in the painting storyline is but she just provides the character and the setting but the storyline can be up to the viewer of the painting.

            All of this put into Olivia’s paintings showing her creativity and it all shows how she puts more into the painting than what first hits the eye. Olivia Interview Olivia Homepage Olivia's Facebook