I love this artists work! He is from the 1800's and he did portraits of royalty subjects. He did his best work when painting erotic art paintings in a history painting portrait style. I have only seen one of his erotic NC-17 rating pictures and it was in a erotic art history book. You can see his royalty subjects portrait paintings at museums like the GETTY. I think it is thought that he made about 17 realistic erotic paintings. They are kind of in the same vein as Corbet's painting of a womans vagina and hips and the 2 sexy women in bed together naked kind of like 1800's lipstick lesbians. Winterhalter's painting I like so much is of a woman standing over a stream in a dress with a beautiful spacious landscape like Attendorfer painted in the 1500's with clouds, sky and mountians in the background. Their looks nothing erotic about the Winterhalter picture at first. I thought why is this in an erotic art history book? Is it because the woman has large breasts and look 5 feet 11 inches tall and has a strong healthy body? Then after about 15 seconds I noticed the reflection painted in the water, remember she is standing above a stream. In the reflection it reveals she is not wearing any panties underneath her dress. and through the water reflection we see what her vagina looks like. It's an optical illusion gag painting. I'm not sure he showed these paintings to anyone except maybe his students or friends. I remember they said these paintings were discovered later and were not known of during his lifetime or popularity. I don't think the royalty who hired him for portraits knew he made erotic art. I want to find a website or art book one day about the other 16 paintings in his erotic art collection!
I remember where I was at age 10 of being in my front yard and my dad coming outside to tell me that Jim Henson was dead. I always thought the world of my hero and idol Jim Henson! I did learn later on from articles about him and meeting his daughters at a puppetry convention, that he was human and had flaws like the rest of us! I have heard various stories about his flaws as a skirt chaser womanizer and how he spent more time at work than he did with his family, he didn't live with his wife, they lived separate lives from each other and she was on the east coast with the kids while he was living in London for many years! I think they had divorced, I can't remember, but he was known for being a ladies man! He passed away from an infection, that could have been cured easily but he believed in Christian Science where you don't go to the doctors! Some puppetry people I used to know speculated that he died of overworking himself. That theory could be true to a point, just look at everything he made, directed, produced, performed, or oversaw! He accomplished more in his lifetime as a filmmaker, puppeteer and artist than 10 to 20 very talented people combined all together! I used to have a fixation about his puppetry as a kid and teenager. I had dreams from age 15 to 21 of being the next Walt Disney or Jim Henson. I know neither of these two men couldn't ever have done it all alone, that they hired people to create and collaborate for them their ideas and visions of something grand and something new! I realized at age 22 that I wasn't going to be a master puppet builder or a famous puppeteer! I realized at age 23 or 24 I wasn't getting hired by Disney,and that my dreams and pursuit i tried to make happen of being a famous Disney animator and story concept artist just were not happening! I tried to send my stuff out to Disney and Pixar over 8 to 10 times between age 19 to 31. If it were meant to be it would have happened! I used to also think I was going to become big or successful as a special effects creature shop artist and work for or own my own creature effects studio one day, that didn't happen even if I did apply for interviews and tried to network and all that! Much of professional special effects is just glamorized assembly line factory work. I'm happy making the art and monsters I want to make that just come out intutiively and naturally without me really thinking about it, I just start drawing or sculpting in clay and what happens to pour out of me is my results. I sure wish that my art could sell and find an audience. I give a lot of what I make away to others for free! I'm not holding out for ever being an art star or millionaire artist. I know a few art stars who were my peers or friends back in art school years before they hit the big time stardom. If i have not started a following yet, it's probably not realistic for me to expect fame and a fan following to happen to me!
Bernie Wrightson one of the hands down the best artists of the late 1960's to early 1980's6/12/2011
Bernie wrightson was kicking ass and taking names since he drew the first Swamp Thing Comics for DC in the late 1960's. He floored everyone else making comics at that time, except for a few guys just as good but different like Mike Ploog, Jeff Jones, Barry Windsor Smith, Richard Corben and the late great Vaughn Bode! He is still alive and still draws comics but since the mid to late 1990's his art style and technique has gone down hill. He was on fire and unstoppable in the 1970's! You can't compare a Bernie Wrightson highly detailed and talented masterpiece to anything else! I like his monsters better than a crush on a girl that I am fixated and obsessed about! I'm not kidding either, his monsters are mesmorising! If you see Bernie Wrightson comic books from the late 1960's to early 1980's buy it! You will not regret it one bit, but treasure and hoard your finds into a full collection! Trust me! It's what I did. Like Richard Corben he is a comic book nerd fan favorite and lots of artists who used to read comic books still love his old stuff! He has worked on many big hollywood movies like Ghostbusters and Galaxy Quest as a pre production monster design concept artist!
RICHARD CORBEN is the man! He has some issues with his so-so social skills like I do and his imagination is very strong! In fact if you know me and think my imagination ability is very strong, multiply that times 30 and you have a great Richard Corben comic book story! He loves to take time on his art and when he goes all out on his craftsmanship rendering painting skills, he collects fans like bees to honey! I have spoken to him on the phone before, what a rush to get to meet your hero since age 13! He looked at my art portfolio through the mail when I was 20 years old, and gave me a little feedback! I spend half of my bar mitzvah money as a teenager at the san diego comic con in the 1990's buying up as much old 1960's to 1980's Bernie Wrightson and Richard Corben comic books and comic stories! He puts his life or personal problems into his stories, like in Den part 2 Den the well hung muscle man butt kicking hero doesn't want to wear modern day clothing circa 1980! He wants to go back to walking around and fighting monsters to the death naked like he used to! He was only wearing the clothes for his girlfriend Kath, if a superhero starts getting into relationship conflicts with his sex kitten girlfriend in fantasy comic about sex and kung fu fighting on a mysterious planet in another universe the author or artist is passive aggressively talking about his relationship with his own wife or girlfriend! But that's what is cool about Richard Corben, he embraces his fantasies about kicking some ass first with the bad guys and then getting some ass from the bodacious babes! He has an art style that cannot be replicated except only by him! He comes from Kansas City area, Mo. and he has lived there his whole life! He has left Kansas City before to travel around or work as an illustrator! He married his high school sweet heart Dona who likes photography and he has a grown up daughter. I'm not sure if he is a grandpa? But I get the feeling he is very shy, introverted, and a bit of a home body! Right now his passion is once again life drawing which is drawing the human body with a live model, in a classroom or artist studio with other people who help cheer each other on to draw well and help bring the cost of paying for the life drawing model down to a reasonable price per person! Richard Corben has a sense of color that is beyond any technicolor technicians wildest dreams! He can shade charicso like a genius and he can paint clothing and fabric better than anyone else in comic books! He went to Kansas City Art Institute in the 1960's.I recommend everyone check out Richard Corben comic books and do a google image search, or look at his website which I think is www.corbenstudios.net I believe!
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