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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mansons2005, post: 182114, member: 121&quot;]Quote from an internet article:</p><p><br /></p><p>During the <a href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/military-and-wartime/vietnam-war" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/military-and-wartime/vietnam-war" rel="nofollow">Vietnam War</a>, tourist-market black velvet painting also proliferated in Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines, particularly in Angeles City, near the United States’ Clark Air Force Base. In “Black Velvet Masterpieces,” Anderson says, “Wherever the U.S. military went, velvet painting seems to have followed.” A company called Suh Kwang Products Limited in Korea and Vietnam produced round velvet paintings with big-eyed soldiers, often with tears in their eyes, in front of jungle scenery or helicopters.</p><p><br /></p><p>“This snobbery shows the ugly side of the fine art world and upper middle-class aspirational sensibilities.”</p><p><br /></p><p>“During the Vietnam War in the ’60s, all the G.I.’s would go out from San Diego, through Hawaii, and then to Angeles City in the Philippines,” Baldwin says. “That was the R&amp;R place they’d go to from ‘Nam. Over the course of doing this research, I met quite a few guys who went to Angeles City brothels. It was just a wild, wild place, thanks to all these young guys fighting in the war. And they were teenagers, man. Their taste was not that sophisticated when it came to art, so they went for the naked ladies. These guys would roll them up in their <a href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/bags/duffle-bags" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/bags/duffle-bags" rel="nofollow">duffle bags</a> and bring them back to the States.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Baldwin remembers a man who came by, offering them a whole bunch of ’60s black-light paintings, which Baldwin purchased for display in the museum. “It’s heavy stuff about war and drug usage,” Baldwin says. “There’s this muscle-bound skeleton of a G.I. shooting up. He’s got the skull face and the Army helmet. And I go, ‘Shit, that’s Vietnam.’”</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Link:</p><p><a href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/velvet-underdogs-in-praise-of-the-paintings-the-art-world-loves-to-hate/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/velvet-underdogs-in-praise-of-the-paintings-the-art-world-loves-to-hate/" rel="nofollow">http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/velvet-underdogs-in-praise-of-the-paintings-the-art-world-loves-to-hate/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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