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that is sad and a mess ... thanx for posting this ... I recommend to fans the fire and ice documentary about frazetta ...
-------------------- Michael Gene Adkins The Fontry 1576 S Hwy 59 Watts OK 74964 Posts: 845 | From: Watts, OK USA | Registered: Jun 1999
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Sometimes life just jumps up and grabs people by the a$$...
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Big Frazetta fan here since the seventies,, I have to admit though, I stole some of his paintings myself, I airbrushed many of his paintings on Bikes, Vans, and Cars... lol. Boris is another Idol of mine.
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SIGNS1st. Neil Butler Paradise, NF Posts: 6277 | From: St. John's NF Canada | Registered: Mar 1999
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I hope when I'm old that my kids just ÅSK me for money instead of trying to steal it with some cracked out meth binge idea. A backhoe?... really? I guess he didn't think anyone would notice... hahaha. Sorry, I just thought that was kinda funny.
It does ,however, make me sick to hear of art getting stolen... or to think of all the illegally owned art stolen from the wars over the years... or when some corporate chain steals ideas to make millions only to shell out a few hundred dollars for the idea.
Frazetta's art is awesome and has inspired many!
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To tell you the truth David, Boris's work was a little more polished, in that his work was a little more realistic looking, but the theme was pretty close to one another. I'm not sure who inspired who, probably they inspired each other.
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SIGNS1st. Neil Butler Paradise, NF Posts: 6277 | From: St. John's NF Canada | Registered: Mar 1999
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Ya know, a lots of these guys used models. I would think that they would be a whole web site dedicated to the models. How they looked then, and now. Can you imagine, you'd see some woman standing next to one of his paintings saying, "Yep, that was me back in the day".
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3814 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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Frazetta had a more direct style of painting like John Singer Sargent. The Boris paintings looked like they were underpainted and glazed. I think direct painting is much harder to do. One thing I admired about Frazetta was his line work. His cartoons were fantastic. I hope the museum sticks around... I'd like to go there someday. It would be a shame if his kid's sold everything on Ebay.
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Boris is a talented imitator. In my opinion his work isn't even in the same league as Frazetta. If Frazetta is major league, than Boris is playing t-ball. I just did a google image search for "boris vallejo" and then for "frank frazetta". Just looking at the thumbnails, there is no comparison. Boris is all about bronzed women in bikinis, while Frazetta is actually telling stories.
Boris relies on mostly-nude women to carry his compositions. It looks like he dresses up penthouse models in fantasy outfits and tells them to strike a pose. Each image has the look of a page out of a calender. It gets boring after a while.
Frazetta, on the other hand, can make anything look awesome - men, women, animals, monsters, aliens, buildings, trees, chains, rocks, snow etc. His loose rub-out technique in his backgrounds leaves so much to the imagination, and gives his work massive depth. It's like you are catching a glimpse at another world. It keeps me turning the pages in my Frazetta books, wishing I had an anthology of this works.
My mind wanders. And that's not a good thing, 'cause it's too small to be out there alone. Posts: 3129 | From: Tooele, UT | Registered: Mar 2005
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Frazetta is the best at what he does for sure. His style with a brush is unlike any others. But Boris has his place also. His style is more realistic than Franks, but he still does great artwork. If hes a tballer in the world of painting, then we are all just embryos, lol.
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I do know what Russ is talking about, but to say that he's T-Ball, well, no, I don't agree with that statement at all... I have had many books on both Artists over the years and their styles are just different, I think Frazzeta paints a little like Rembrant, but that's his loose, big strokes look to his painting and his background is what Russ said it looks like... Boris, is just a more of a realistic painter, really, his attention to detail is something, and his paintings are more sexual in nature...Everyone has an opinion, it's just that, Mine's the right one. lol
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SIGNS1st. Neil Butler Paradise, NF Posts: 6277 | From: St. John's NF Canada | Registered: Mar 1999
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