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Frank Frazetta just passed - R.I.P.

Started by Benoist, May 10, 2010, 02:36:14 PM

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#15
May 10, 2010, 11:14:45 PM
He was a great artist. He was also in his 80s. Its not like he went before his time.

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May 10, 2010, 11:22:26 PM
Damn.

Grew up loving his paintings.
Don't normally like Fasntasy/Sword & Sorcery - but his work had a vibrancy to it as if something was about to happen or we are viewing it in the middle of something happening.

Three or four years ago a cable channel did a biography-style profile and tribute to him mixed together with an interview. I think it was on either the BRAVO channel or OVation.
Any of you know if thats put on DVD?


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#17
May 10, 2010, 11:35:55 PM
Glad I got to go to the Frazetta Museum before his wife died and his kids started fighting over control of his work.  Let's just say that reproductions just don't do justice to the nuances and textures in a lot of those paintings.  They are pretty amazing up close.
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May 10, 2010, 11:38:54 PM Last Edit: May 11, 2010, 09:14:57 PM by John Morrow
Quote from: Koltar;379887Any of you know if thats put on DVD?

It's called Painting With Fire.  You can get it as a standalone DVD or as part of a two-disc set with Fire and Ice.
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#19
May 11, 2010, 01:46:07 AM
Quote from: John Morrow;379890Glad I got to go to the Frazetta Museum before his wife died and his kids started fighting over control of his work.  Let's just say that reproductions just don't do justice to the nuances and textures in a lot of those paintings.  They are pretty amazing up close.
I think that apart from the pieces being genre work, there is a lot of the old Italian masters in the furious energy and colour of his art. Where a Vallejo painting is just oiled bodybuilders posing, Frank's could be legitmately shown in an art gallery.
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#20
May 11, 2010, 06:55:37 AM
Could someone refresh my memory: Did he have anything to do with "Heavy Metal"?
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#21
May 11, 2010, 06:25:28 PM
Frank's works were nothing short of awesome. R.I.P., Frank. :(

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#22
May 11, 2010, 09:14:26 PM
Quote from: Melan;379902I think that apart from the pieces being genre work, there is a lot of the old Italian masters in the furious energy and colour of his art. Where a Vallejo painting is just oiled bodybuilders posing, Frank's could be legitmately shown in an art gallery.

I agree.  I went to the Frazetta Museum with a friend who is an artist (I had wanted to go since I saw Painting With Fire) and he pointed out a lot of details to me.  A lot of his paintings have depth that just doesn't come across in the reproductions.  For example, the green moss on the cat woman in the jungle consists of textured blogs of paint that rise up off of the canvas and the hair on the guy on the polar bear chariot consists of translucent layers of paint.
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#23
May 11, 2010, 09:18:14 PM
He will be missed. But he had a long and productive life filling the minds of countless youths with images of fantastic worlds.

He was one of the greats. Rest in peace, Mr. Frazetta.
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#24
May 11, 2010, 10:39:01 PM
We must remember that his work will live on in the artists it inspires.

There will be the pale, lazy imitators, but there will be the true artists who strike to add to the body of work FF created, not just feed off it.
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#25
May 11, 2010, 11:44:20 PM
This one really kicks me in the slats.

I got a Frazetta art book for Christmas one year, and I can honestly say it's one of a handful of books that truly changed my life. Both of my parents were sci-fi fans, so the doorway to speculative fiction was open a crack, but that Frazetta book chopped the door down with a huge gleaming battle axe and left the splinters hanging from a twisted leather hinge.

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#26
May 11, 2010, 11:48:26 PM
Quote from: Caesar Slaad;380128He will be missed. But he had a long and productive life filling the minds of countless youths with images of fantastic tits.

Fixed your typo.

(But I wholeheartedly agree with your original, unsullied post)
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#27
May 12, 2010, 02:16:44 AM
Quote from: The Shaman;380159If there really is a Valhalla, the glorious dead are lining up to have their portraits painted.

Hell of an image, dude. :)
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