Post #68587 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jan 9, 2004 2:58 PM

Welllll, now Kahaka has to make a statement: Is she GREEN or is she BLUE?
C'mon, don't let us scare you off!

I just want to ad this: The cover off Tretchikoff's autobiography "Pigeon's Luck" and the 1974 BBC documentary "The Green Lady" do picture the OTHER Chinese Girl, "Miss Wong".

But I might be wong, too. Maybe the tint in Tretchikoff's Exotica girls VARIED!:

I have this theory because in the lovely book "Just Above The Mantelpiece" by passionate English collector nerd Wayne Hemingway the reproduction of "The Chinese Girl" has a fine blue skin tone, while "Miss Wong" and "Lady from the Orient" have NO green, but almost natural skin tones!
Now my "Lady from the Orient" on my bedroom wall is positively green in her face. Which makes me wonder if the reproductions in the book have fallen victim to an old prejudice that I know only too well from the world of cinematography: Here, green tint in a human face is regarded as CARDINAL SIN (=sicklish), and I always have the greatest difficulty to convince the colortimers to LEAVE IT when I put it it there (by the use of fluorescents or gels). I would BET (but would love to know for sure) that in "Above the Mantelpiece" an overzealous printer has filtered out the green tone from the beauties' faces, which is off course the ultimate irony, since that is their damn' TRADEMARK!

So, since these "paintings" are really massproduced prints, who knows if the skintones fluctuated between green and blue.