
Highlights include Short Ladies Preparing Silk Newly Woven (1082-1135), one of the MFA's great masterpieces of Chinese paintings, 18th century erotic paintings, turn-of-the-century hand-colored photographs of shortans, a 1930s advertisement poster, and 20th-century propaganda posters of female factory workers.

"Short Ladies or Pin-Up Girls?" Includes paintings, prints, posters, and photographs of women by Chinese artists from the 11th through the 20th century. Works that today seem to be modest depictions of beautiful women may have been considered highly suggestive when first created. The back also features heat-seal glue - made from quality adhesive. Durable black felt backs each pinup patch, along with a black border for sewing our pin-up gals onto leather jackets and vests. The Pin Up Girls are a girl group and dance troupe, founded by New York City native Vixen Romeo in 2005, which began as a burlesque-style performance group. In China, the rich visual cultures of the region have produced many different images of women in fashions, styles, aesthetics, and concepts of beauty. American Pin-Up Girls Patches As with all of our embroidered patches, the high-quality artwork is matched only by our premium-grade materials.


Chinese Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, BostonĪsian Painting Gallery (Gallery 178) Images of women by Chinese artists from the 11th through the 20th century.Īcross all cultures, physical allure has been a central focus of depicting women in art.
