The art of Attila Richard Lukacs - #3

"All right what is a skinhead? According the media skinheads are confused white youth who cry out for attention in the way of bashing minorities, wearing symbols of the very same people our Country brought down in World War 2, and killing their family's because mom or dad won't let them go out and burn crosses in their neighbors lawn...

Well, skinhead to me ain't nothing of the above, Skinhead is working hard in everything you do and saying bollocks to thinks you don't want to do. Skinhead is having pride in the land you were born regardless of the tyranny that government may project. Skinhead is being there for your friends, enjoying good beer and have a laugh. Skinhead is not buying into the whole left and right thing but finding your place in the middle, rather than buying into extremes. Skinhead is the pride and work you put into your gear so that you stand above the rest. Skinhead is not about following "lace laws" but your own laws. Skinhead is not about race it is about Unity, unity with one's social class. Skinhead is knowing your at the bottom of the ladder and making the best of it. Skinhead is having a say no matter what the repercussions may be. Skinhead is about relaxing to SKA or getting AGGRO to Oi! or bedding as many birds as you can..."
- Ben Sherman, arawa.tripod.com

This is almost a travel agency pamphlet text, praising the joys of nudist resorts...

There is another, and unexpected side to Attila Lukacs. And not just because he got older and grew out of the skinhead phase (he may not have). Look at these:

The art of Attila Richard Lukacs - #2

Dieter: no we're not faggots
Question: but you live together, right?
Dirk: yeah
Q: how long have you been living together?
Dirk: oh, like for three years
Q: you sleep in the same bed?
Dieter: yeah
Q: but you're not boyfriends.
Dirk: no
Dieter: we're just mates

The art of Attila Richard Lukacs - #1

After all those cuddly barbarian warriors, it's time for controversy.

When Canadian painter and photographer Attila Richard Lukacs arrived on the German art scene in the 1980s, he shocked people. Although not with this artful Polaroid. 

~ space station blues

come in, Ray
everything OK?

everything’s groovy

how ’bout you Davey

well
yes
endless reruns of Desperate Spacebabes

Frank Frazetta - the sex cum sexy survey

I remember fans would approach me at conventions
and say "What a fabulous cover. I read the entire
book awaiting to read about the scene on the cover
and never found it. So I read it again thinking I
missed it, but no luck."
Never judge a book by its cover.
-
What I do is create images, period.

The concluding post. The Frank Frazetta Propriety LLC will kill me.

Frank Frazetta - the domination/submission issue

In 1994, Alex Avecedo, owner of the Alexander Gallery in New York and regular buyer of Frazetta art, was interested in the watercolor 'Tarzan meets La of Opar'.
I 'm sure he did.

Frank Frazetta - the pets

Sappho does something to men's heterosexist libido. Guys love to see two women making love to each other. In photographs, videos and live on the spot.
Another popular theme, especially in Fantasy, is Women and Zoophilia. Better know as Bestiality, although this is a term for the courtroom.
Frank Frazetta wasn't into arty lesbos, his ladies are of the type that clutch muscled men's legs. But he drew and painted many naked and near-naked dames who have bonded with animals, and ever so subtly suggested that there's even more between them.

Frank Frazetta - spotlight on The Bums

What Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo share, is a love for the human hams. These artists displayed them in both female and male form, in reality and fantasy, either in loin cloth scraps and skin bibs, or fully exposed to sun, wind, insects, thorns, arrows and the stares of temple virgin chaperones and conservative necromancers. Oh, and like on mutual agreement: they bioth wasted no creative time on hairs, pimples and pinch marks. 

Frank Frazetta - covers & sketches

Personally I don't like guys like John Carter from Barsoon (an early mix of SW&S and SciFi) and the ancient Conan the Barbarian. They have too big egos, seem to lack feelings, are obsessed with fighting and are fearless to the point of ridiculous, jumping and flying and diving and falling like there is no gravity and no bone and muscle injuries. 
A superhero is what we all want to be, goes the defense.  Well, I wouldn't want to be a fantasy.

Frank Frazetta - early years

At the tender age of 8. Not bad. Of course heavily influenced by Harold Foster, Alex Raymond and the Superhero phenomenon that became popular during his childhood. The second illustration shows a bit more action and is funny too. Frankie Frazetta certainly had talent.

The demise of a project

This hurts. I love illustrations of Fantasy dwarves, and was eager to make it the most complete survey on them ever presented, but the project - my third effort - crashed again. The series also became once more too extensive, and there were too many unauthorized illustrations involved.
I decided to delete the posts, save for the first three episodes on gnomes and a few dwarf-related poems.

I will continue with other subjects and try to keep them short to give this blog more diversity. It doesn't mean the end to dwarves, though. It's a matter of better dosing. So once in a while a single dwarf post will pop up, in particularly on the (sexualized) subject of Tolkien's Gimli and Legolas, the dwarf character Reginn from the Nordic legend Sigurd,  the remarkable, surrealist creations of a Peruvian artist, and El Trauco, a spirit from the Chilean folklore. There will also be art that features the ones that never made it in the three efforts as well: both historical and modern dwarves. No fantasy characters, but real ones.

Pillowing with Frank Frazetta

Some of the illustrations of Fantasy legend Frank Frazetta are released in the Pillow Book. This is an early one, from around 1950.
The nude girl is well shaped, but the schoolgirlish pose, her face and hairdo are a far cry from the Fantasy female warriors, priestesses and queens he drew in the 1960's and 70's, when he defined his style. 
The little demon offers a nice contrast, glowing in devilish colors, and notice the musculature of his legs, which would characterize all Frazetta's later male heroes.
To my opinion the illustration has been cropped too much, and the grass could have been a bit greener, it looks scorched now. Intentional, or just a result of fading over time? 
In all other regards 'The Tempters' is very charming. 

~ the father and the son

~ the dwarf and the dragon

Source

On her back I escaped
no one faster than Bronn
like me, she enjoys this
past gone, future on

~ magiculus mustachius

A history of short yet towering bellicosity
Whoever ridiculed his legs
he used to prune theirs, in one blow
of his ax (a converted Warhammer)
The bleeding stumps of the adversary
he sealed instantly
with his magical
searing looks

Women, booze and above all an adversary called
Time caught up with him
He now revives a slimy wall
in the hall of Castle Bludd-o-Grhyme
There the troll queen reads her elegies
or mends the king's treasured socks and undies
by the light
of Magiculus' Mustachius...

The art of Gnomes- #3

For children gnomes are real people, even if they don't look human. They live in what can be described best as an adult world for minors. Gnomes chased by a bad tempered owl or tripping over their own feet and falling into a shallow brook is sheer DRAMA.

If gnomes behave naughty and provocative, it's always in a childish way. From the point of view of grown ups. They don't take kiddie stuff serious. They make fun of fairies and pixies and gnomes, but in a typical adult way: by sexualizing them. The preceding episode already showed some naughty ones; the Mooners. Grown ups tend to take it lot further.

~ a garden gnome passed by

In the nick

of time, at 11:59 pm, he stood
at the pearly gates of Heaven
where a voice boomed
NO

Oh
he said
dropping his wheelbarrow, Why
he asked, I
have been a good Catholic!

The art of Gnomes - #2

Do I still have visitors, hello, ello, ello, ello...?

The world of Gnomes continued. 

The art of Gnomes - #1

The world of Fantasy is complicated. Disney's 1938 gang of seven are dwarves ('dwarfs', he insisted) but you could also say they belong to the wood gnome family. Except, Snow Whites little friends don't have pointed ears and twiggy legs, which you often see with classical folklore gnomes. This lovable fellow is Disney-related, he sports the standard white/gray beard, the stocky build and, what dwarves ferociously refuse to wear, the highly impractical conic hat. It doesn't matter that he is a garden gnome (a sort of ghetto species, often stigmatized as 'kitsch'), he probably thinks his backyard lot is the world.

~ a princess tea commercial

Went once for a walk in winter's woods
Lost my sense of time and direction
and noticed a deterioration
starting at my brand new walking boots

The art of Rockwell Kent - #4

I consider Kent's stylized bookplates his finest moments in art. The woodcuts, perfectly in tune with the Art Deco zeitgeist, are an unabashed glorification of the male nude. They also reflect the revival of the classic Greek nude, in later years so admired by Hitler´s architects and sculptors. Coincidence? After just sixteen months in Newfoundland (1914), he was driven out of the province under suspicion of being a (World War I) German spy, a perception he himself apparently encouraged by provocatively singing German songs and professing his admiration of the culture in other ways.

The art of Rockwell Kent - #3

The Adirondacks, Ireland, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Alaska, Newfoundland, Greenland. Kent had this love for the rougher and colder regions. In 1914 he took up his family and left New York for Brigus, Newfoundland, 'a bleak hamlet populated by fishermen, seal hunters, and an Arctic explorer.'

Robert H. Bartlett. With whom Kent struck up a life long friendship.

The art of Rockwell Kent - #2

An 'environmentalist & mystic before it became fashionable', I read somewhere. The first should not be taken too serious. Rockwell Kent had no reservations in regard to commissions from the industrial and commercial world. But this was long before Greenpeace and Al Gore.

The art of Rockwell Kent - #1

The novel Moby Dick received bad reviews, was forgotten, but got re-discovered in the 1920's. For a 1930 release, Rockwell Kent was asked to do the art work.

At the time he was so in demand as an illustrator, that Random House didn't feature the name of the writer, the editors expected the book to sell on Kent's name alone...

His many wood cuttings with their stark black-white contrast were a great asset to the novel, though.

The art of Queequeg

Queequeg is not an artist. He carries art around- on his body. Queequeg is a fictious character from Herman Melville's Moby Dick novel. A 'savage cannibal' from a South Pacific archipel with whom the story teller, a young American sailor named Ishmael, strikes up a friendship.
The text in the drawing is taken from the novel. The drawing underlines what Herman Melville possibly never meant.