Fantasy in art 13 – Vallejo or Frazetta?
The founder of the post-war Sword & Sorcery art is considered Boris Vallejo, who still gets widely imitated. But what about the other legend; Frank Frazetta? A few Vallejo’s first:
Princess tea against bad breath
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Went for a walk in winter’s woods
lost my sense of time and destination
saw an alarming deterioration
commencing at my boots
Fantasy in art 12 – the kinky dragons
A dragon must be quite kinky if he wants to snuggle up with a female human and even copulate with her. Humaniality- bestiality in reverse.
So it’s no wonder that they hump anyone and anything. One may be a fantasy creature, but that’s no excuse to misbehave.
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Fantasy in art 11 – the gay slayers
…And where were you, testosteron-loaded warriors, when your female colleagues started having affairs with dragons?
Ah, yes…
Fantasy in art 10 – the babes underneath the dragons
Anyone who read Stephen King’s Firestarter knows that even at a tender age, dragons are killers for your curtains and furniture. But once they have reached the adolesent phase, they become a real social nuisance. They start to collect damsels, maidens, princesses.
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Fantasy in art 9 – the dragons underneath the babes
Lovely dragon armor.
Women are not only capable to find the soft spot in a dragon, they have a soft spot for dragons themselves. Same as with unicorns. Although a female warrior never rides a unicorn when she’s the type who’s been places. In other words; no longer a virgin.
Fantasy in art 8 – the early dragons
The dragon is not a Marvel Comics or Robert E. Howard invention. Ancient Mesopothamian artifacts already show ‘m.
Fantasy in art 7 – the dragons
The Female Warrior does a lot of running, jumping, falling, diving and walking. And riding, of course. Her transport is usually a fierce dragon. Because a pegasus is for whinnying softies.
Dragons and men; now that’s like trying to mate ice and fire. Men are convinced that the only good dragon is a slain dragon. And dragons think: I always get the body groomed gym fags so I can’t sing their leg hairs off.
It’s enough for a never ending war.
Fantasy in art 6 – some very, very BAD babes
I am not always fond of computergame animation. Usually there you get to see a flat sort of 3D, and rather stiff looking, doll-like characters.
But the story and the scenery in this Warrior-against-Amazons game is delightful and it has at least one true-to-life color.
Fantasy in art 5 – the maneaters
I read that novelist Marion Zimmer Bradley made the Female Warrior type ‘Wonder Woman’ a trend in the 1960s. Marion got fed up with helpless, whimpering fashion models like Edgar Rice Burrough’s Jane and Alex Raymond’s Dale, so she wrote about women with muscles in all the right places and who had a 24/7 job rescuing the sorry asses of perpetually abducted, helpless, whimpering men.
Fantasy in art 4 – the totally useless babes
Do we have butt-kicking women today? Aside from the legion found in the Marvel sector, we got kicked by The Bride in the movie Kill Bill and Alice from the Resident Evil series. Molded straight from the Female Warrior concept; these girlz.
1980s movies and comics hung on to the classic Sword & Sorcery format, though. Red Sonja, Hundra and Xena. ‘Classic’ as in less brains than Uma Thurman and Milla Jovovic had, but much bigger tits.
Going back in time some more, we see women who belonged to another breed. Creatures you could knock unconscious with a mere blow. From a kiss. They can be recognized by their doe eyed stares and submissive poses. Which prompted the male royalty to act like King Kong in rut.
And don’t think that only uncivilized barbarians were rutting at the sight of a woman with typical Western bikini tops on.
Fantasy in art 3 – the busting and bumming babes
From here on, comments would be a total waste of time. Strong visuals speak louder than words.
Fantasy in art 2 – the bitchy babes
Testosterone must be whooping by now, so with hesitation I bring the Sw&S product Female Warrior Babe to the foreground. If she hasn’t been there already. Thanks to millions of bedsheets-wetting 13-year old boys.
According to Wikipedia, Sword & Sorcery is situated
after the destruction of Atlantis and before the rise of the known ancient civilizations.
Right after the retreat of the Last Ice Age, I suppose. So the mythological Amazons can’t have been the first fem warriors. Their great-great-grandmothers were at least a lot more spicy.
Fantasy art 1 – the Swords, Axes & Sledgehammers
Now Fantasy – very popular in contemporary illustration art – has a problem just the same.
Most fans of Fantasy, and their artists, are to be found in the Sword, Sorcery & Sandals sector. That genre has become a horrror field of cliché’s equaled only by the Marvel Superhero Hype.
Digital: art, arty, or second-rate art?
Digital Fantasy Art is in my view an art form that must be taken dead serious.
Digital art, however, has a problem. That is, when it strives for photo-realism. The viewer says ‘Art? All you had to do was point the camera and click the shutter and gloss the result up a bit in photoshop’, and thus will miss the creative work the artist often has put into the picture.
But what to think of this sort of creativity?
The art of Autumn
season’s massacral greetings
Tripping through the flards
of their slimy flesh
I smell mushy sulfur
anisette, spicy sweet
The garden wasps gone underground
remaining flowers wilt
my feet are numbed, I
turn up the gas
A byproduct
from many eons
countless autumns
of seasonal death
©2011dedeurs
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The Art of Autumn :
Some more on the Forever Sunshine Girl
“Any girl can look glamorous …. just stand there and look stupid.”
On Internet, already a lot about Doris Day can be found, but I think I can add a few views. For instance, that she wasn’t just a hugely popular mainstream singer/actress. She was an extremely good singer and actress. She made 40 movies, and while not all of them flawless products, there isn’t one where she does a bad job. Not even in the ones she herself loathed.
Forever Sunshine Girl
For her first – and reluctant – venture into movies, she showed up for a meeting with the film’s director Michael Curtis without having made any effort to wear a special dress or hairdo, and burst into tears a couple of minutes into the test vocal “Embraceable You”. The film score’s composer Sammy Cahn took her aside and explained the director was looking for a Betty Hutton type – someone who sang and bounced around. She replied, “I don’t bounce around – I just sing”.
- Eric Brown
Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff bounced reluctantly across the movie screen for two decades in a row, turning from an already famed singer into America’s top movie star…Doris Day.
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Signal from outer blogspace
It’s obvious that there’s no end to glass art. But I want to hammer a few other subjects in.
Like starting – after having aborted two trials before – a series on nudity in art. And art, that’s not only glass, but paint, marble, bronze and a lot more creative materials.
However, fearing for another dominating series, I decided to take the first episode out of Planet Bareass again, and put it on a whole new weblog; Planet Male II. The link can be found here on the right side under Blogroll and the blog uses the same familiar black-blue Art Nouveau template.
Tripping the glass fantastic – 52
The last of the batch, the bits and the pieces.
Egypt. Building the first pre-artdeco sky scrapers, but not developing the greatest lamps and lanterns in history? I found only a few ‘genuine’ Egyptian lamps, and I doubt some of them. Nevertheless, they are nice specimens.
