{"id":8478,"date":"2004-09-06T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegrrl.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2004-09-06T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-06T05:58:00","slug":"big-eyed-grrls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2004\/big-eyed-grrls\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Eyed Grrls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66212 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/bigeyedgirl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"612\" \/>What is it about those drawings of big-eyed girls. Can you remember those old &#8217;70s prints by Keane, Eden, Maio and Goji? The modern <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.bratzpack.com\/index2.asp\">Bratz<\/span> and PowerPuff Girls aren&#8217;t that different, they use the same basic theme. No wonder I catch myself pulling them off the store shelves for a better look. I&#8217;ve had some kind of kitschy fetish for those big-eyed girls since I was a kid.<\/p>\n<p>These days you can find them in the odd garage sale, flea market and Goodwill. Ebay too, but then there&#8217;s shipping involved. Of course, you can find the new big-eyed types in your local department store, appearing on school supplies girl&#8217;s fashions near you.<\/p>\n<p>If you have time to let the page load for a long time, you can see some of the original big-eyed girls from Margaret Keane. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keane-eyes.com\/\">Keane Eyes<\/a> gallery shows a lot Margaret&#8217;s waifs. But, those aren&#8217;t the same big-eyed girls that were hanging in my girlhood bedroom. Mine were prints done by Eden, Maio and Goji, the girls were young women and often wore a harlequin outfit. Those are harder to find information about. There is a fan site for the big-eyed art. That&#8217;s how I found names for them at all. I couldn&#8217;t find more yet the artist&#8217;s are likely still around. The &#8217;70s weren&#8217;t that long ago, right?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2004\/big-eyed-grrls\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Big Eyed Grrls\"><p>What is it about those drawings of big-eyed girls. Can you remember those old &#8217;70s prints by Keane, Eden, Maio and Goji? The modern Bratz and PowerPuff Girls aren&#8217;t that different, they use the same basic theme. No wonder I catch myself pulling them off the store shelves for a better look. I&#8217;ve had some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[928],"tags":[985,288,307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}