Frank Frazetta vs Norman Rockwell

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American kitsch masters cage match

 

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An archetypal dyad these two. Rockwell is a painter of marginalia, quickness, texture. A slice of a larger world out of frame. Frazetta is a painter of smoothness and stillness, a world frozen in a moment entirely contained in frame.

 

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Both work primarily with character scenes, but the nuance in frazettas work comes from technical flair- his color pallette and smooth textures more like that of a fine artist. But the characters themselves are stilted. Rockwells paitings get their power from the depth of emotion he creates in each scene. The characters are just as stagey but he applies realism into the unreality in a subtle way thats compelling.

 

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Rockwells paintings have an essence that comes out when you look at them in total that you dont see with frazettas work, but a singular frazetta painting is more likely to be striking than a rockwell

 

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The world that unfolds when looking at frazettas work in total is frazetta himself, his relationship to color and texture and depth

 

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Frazettas actual subject matter has to be fantastical because theres no story being told by the characters themselves. The narrative comes from his choices in character type (viking, knight, lizard man, dragon). Rockwell does the opposite where if his subjects werent so simple the narrative would be crowded out

 

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Rockwells fine art analague is edward hopper and andrew wyeth. Frazzettas is renaisance court painter

 

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@version can you please post some select cuts from both im on mobile

 

[luka]

good thread title 10 out of 10

 

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rockwell quite pedo-ish so have to go with ff who liked the dames

 

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@version can you please post some select cuts from both im on mobile

Never heard of Frazetta.

 

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Never heard of Frazetta.

really?

 

[luka]

Never heard of Frazetta.

how

 

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really?

I've looked him up and recognise the style, but I didn't know it was all the work of one man. Never occurred to me to think of who was making the stuff. It was just fantasy artwork to me.

 

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Ya I can see how its confusing as he kind of invented the style but you can tell when its him usually

 

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A sad story of record companies lack of faith in a Southern rawk band's value

first album: yeah, let's commission Frank Frazetta!

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yeah, let's get Frank to do it again!

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hmmm... sorry lads, we can't afford Frank, but Boris Vallejo is sort of similar:

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whoah - "hyper-masculine"! Maybe proves a point @Mr. Tea was making? - but, lizard emerging from crotch, axe shaft twisted thru sheer strength, can't be teh gh**, no way - #spartan

oh oh..sales are down.. look lads, Ezra tucker is sort of similar, and a bit cheaper:

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sorry, not renewing contract!

Can just about afford a sub-par Ezra Tucker cover for the album with new record company:

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sorry guys, sales are pitiful, terminating contract..


new deal, different company, can't afford Ezra, but this guy has done some covers for a Brit band called Saxon, we've heard good things:

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sorry lads, you're consigned to the bargain bins....

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versioncore

 

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There's another bloke I learned about recently, can't remember his name, but he did loads of stuff for magazines and comics with soldiers and gangsters and cowboys, guys fighting tigers in the jungle, and stuff like that.

 

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So which of these guys does the artwork for the Wychwood brewery?

 

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@version @wild greens what do you like more about rockwell?