Frank Frazetta was the premier science fiction and fantasy artist of the 1970’s and 1980’s, from comics to book covers to movie posters. His art really gave the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter and others) and Robert E. Howard (Conan) a visualization in my mind. He was in demand by everyone from Hefner (Playboy) to Spielberg (Movie guy) to Molly Hatchett (the band) to Alfred E. Neuman (Mad Magazine), and influenced at least four decades of popular art in the world. The John Carter of Mars movie in production now will in some part be due to Frazetta’s vision (due out in 2012, 100 years after A Princess of Mars debuted!). Princess Leia’s gold plated bikini in the third (or sixth…) Star Wars movie is due to Frank Frazetta!
If you have gone to the movies or looked thorough a book store in the last 40 years you have seen his work sometime or an other!
Self portrait
A Princess of Mars
A Fighting Man of Mars
At the Earth’s Core
The Death Dealer
Egyptian Queen
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Links:
http://www.thepinupfiles.com/frazetta.html
http://fan-tas-tic.com/dejah-thoris-princess-mars-frank-frazetta/
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/fantasy/Frank-Frazetta.html
The last one has a fairly good selection of his better know works.
~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {=-{<
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