Frank Frazetta falls into a similar vein as Boris Vallejo, my previous blog artist. I just really like this comically oversaturated kind of fantasy art, and Frazetta was another pioneer of the style. Instead of focusing on painting, like I did with Vallejo, I'm going to be looking primarily at his ink and pencil work (I really like the above painting and wanted it in the post).
Frazetta's ink and pencil work seems a bit more varied as far as subject matter goes. He addresses fantasy as well as modern pop culture in them, perhaps drawing parallels from his archaic fantasy work to his modern subject matter.ou also see his earlier style of working, done in a more conservative cartoony style. It's really interesting for me to see an artist capable of changing styles so drastically.
Frazetta, Vallejo, and their ilk created Western pop art and gave it an identity and basic formula, taking their physical skill and sense of aesthetics and applying them to the ideals of fantasy and escapism. Through them, people were able to visualize vibrant, technicolor worlds of rich imagination and explore them. They were, in many ways, one of the (if not the) primary visual fuels for the Western imagination in the 20th century.
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