Grandpa Frog, who is a member of the GoMagic group on the OGS, is hosting the May (2024) \"Soviet pin-up\" tournament with the help of GoMagic.
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Pináp, pin-áp (from English to pin up), i.e. a poster pinned on the wall - a picture of a beautiful, often semi-nude, girl in a certain style. In Russian it is used to designate a particular style of American graphics of the mid-20th century. Originated in the 30-40s of the last century. At that time, the printed press became available to the masses, and anyone could cut out an image of a pin-up girl from a newspaper and attach it as a poster at home.
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At present, the genre continues to actively develop. In particular, there are different directions of this genre: classic, digital, modern, \"Soviet\", cartoon, glossy.
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Unusual is the so-called \"Soviet pin-up\". These are satirical posters, similar to the USSR propaganda materials of the times of the 50s-60s. In any case, \"Soviet pin-up\" started as a parody of Soviet posters.
\n\n\n \n Valery Barykin, \"Drink natural tea.\"\n\n\n\n \n Valery Barykin, \"Work hard, have a cultural rest!\"\n\n\n\n \n Natalia Ershova, \"Take a break from the road!\"\n\n\n
Later, this style of drawing was supplemented with works on contemporary social themes and colorful events. Andrey Tarusov, an artist who works a lot in the pin-up genre, published calendars on the theme of the Winter Olympics 2014, the calendar \"Beware of Crimea!\" 2015, \"American\" calendar 2016, \"Revolutionary\" calendar 2017, World Cup 2018, social posters on the theme of COVID.
\n\n \n The 2018 FIFA World Cup calendar. Russian national team.\n\n\n\n \n The 2018 FIFA World Cup calendar. Spain national team.\n\n\n\n \n The 2018 FIFA World Cup calendar. England national team.\n\n\n\n \n Covid-19, Survival Guidelines.\n\n\n\n \n Covid-19, Survival Guidelines.\n\n\n\n \n Covid-19, Survival Guidelines.\n\n\n
Very interesting was the work of Andrei Tarusov - 2019 calendar, \"Russia of the Future\", which featured pin-up versions of famous paintings by Russian painters.
\n\n\n \n Andrei Tarusov, \"Russia of the Future\", 2019 calendar.\n\n\n\n \n Boris Kustodiev, \"Portrait of F. I. Chaliapin, 1922\n\n\n\n \n Andrei Tarusov, \"Russia of the Future\", 2019 calendar.\n\n\n\n \n Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, \"Bathing of the Red Horse\", 1912.\n\n\n\n \n Andrei Tarusov, \"Russia of the Future\", 2019 calendar.\n\n\n\n \n Viktor Vasnetsov, \"Tsarevna-Nesmeiana\", 1916.\n\n\n
And now about pleasant things, about prizes! First of all, each participant of this unofficial tournament will receive an unofficial prize - a Chinese Go book in electronic form. The link to the book will be posted in the tournament chat for a few days after the tournament starts. Since the chat room is periodically cleared of messages, the link will be removed after some time. If you haven't had a chance to download the book, post in the tournament chat and I'll post the link again.
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Second, GoMagic.org has generously sponsored prizes for participants of the unofficial tournaments that I host.These prizes come in the form of coupons, which can be used towards the purchase of GoMagic courses and memberships. In each group of our the third round, participants ranking 1st and 2nd will be awarded these valuable prizes.As the host, I will personally deliver the coupons to the winners via private message on OGS
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Something about the regulations. Please note that each move adds 1 day to the time, but no more than 3 days. Time is suspended for the weekend. This means that you have to make one move per day.
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\n Regards, \n Grandpa Frog.\n
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P.S. James Bond will return in the movie \"From Russia with love\"~~
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Tournaments Go Magic will continue in Junе with the \"Two girls walking in the garden among the azaleas.\" tournament.
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