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Frank Frazetta : book four

Frank Frazetta : book four

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Nice calendar
Review: If you like Frazetta, this is a good calendar, as good as any art calendar with nice color reproductions, not big (about 10.5" X 13.5"), with holidays and phases of the moon, titles, dates and publication data on the illos which are printed to take up the entire top area, without borders, plus beautiful small pen and ink illos (about 2" X 2.5") on the lower page with the name of the month. The reproductions are slightly warmer in hue than in the book collections (that is, yellow, red, and orange are perceptibly more predominant over green, blue and violet when compared to other reproductions of the same work). They all look sharply focused.

I might quibble with some of the selections. Maybe other Frazetta calendars have come out in previous years and they don't want to repeat themselves, but Jaguar God I is compositionally not in a league with Frazetta's best, and Mongol Tyrant is a weak choice for October when Frazetta's great paintings for Creepy magazine are available for a Halloween theme. Still, it will grace my kitchen wall for a year, and I'll enjoy it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Nice calendar
Review: If you like Frazetta, this is a good calendar, as good as any art calendar with nice color reproductions, not big (about 10.5" X 13.5"), with holidays and phases of the moon, titles, dates and publication data on the illos which are printed to take up the entire top area, without borders, plus beautiful small pen and ink illos (about 2" X 2.5") on the lower page with the name of the month. The reproductions are slightly warmer in hue than in the book collections (that is, yellow, red, and orange are perceptibly more predominant over green, blue and violet when compared to other reproductions of the same work). They all look sharply focused.

I might quibble with some of the selections. Maybe other Frazetta calendars have come out in previous years and they don't want to repeat themselves, but Jaguar God I is compositionally not in a league with Frazetta's best, and Mongol Tyrant is a weak choice for October when Frazetta's great paintings for Creepy magazine are available for a Halloween theme. Still, it will grace my kitchen wall for a year, and I'll enjoy it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fantasy Art by an American Master
Review: Number four in the five volume series entitled "The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta," this book, like the others, begins with a brief introduction by Betty Ballantine. Contains images of fantasy and science fiction containing some violence and nudity. For those wondering whether the art reproductions in these out-of-print Ballantine volumes are closer to the originals than the reproductions in Icon are, the answer is: sometimes. I went to the Frazetta Museum in PA in part to answer this question because I saw clear differences between the books. In Icon, reproductions are sometimes cropped and appear washed out with a dominant color. In Icon, for example, "Berserker" is washed out with red, almost duo-toned, which ruins his skin color. In Icon, many reproductions are cropped off. In the Ballantine series, reproductions are complete and have vibrant colors much more true to the originals.

Book is a 9" x 11", 95 pages, soft cover, first published in the U.S. in August 1980 and going into at least three printings thereafter. The cover painting is Sacrifice. Volumes four and five were printed in fewer numbers than the first three. Paper is high quality: thick and glossy. It contains assorted small sketches, figure studies, and the following untitled black and white drawings and color paintings: Eternal Champion, Iron Thorn, Tree of Death, Gollum, Fantasy World, Carson of Venus, Black Star, Count Dracula, Outlaw of Torn, Beyond the Grave, Winged Terror, Mongol Tyrant, Two of a Kind (fat nude female with fat pig) colored drawing, half page (hp) drawing African tribesman with shield & spear vs. big cat, hp drawing primitive man with spiked club in swamp, hp drawing primitive man with spiked club vs. triceratops, full page (fp) drawing seven primitives with spears vs. a tyrannosaurus, fp drawing cloaked, helmed man holding nude with two guards and corpse, primitive man carrying off two resisting nude women, preliminaries for Green Death and A Princess of Mars, God from the Sky, fp drawing primitive man with knife in grip of flying pterodactyl, hp colored drawing two primitive men fist fighting over woman on ground, small colored drawing tyrannosaurus in swamp, fp drawing tyrannosaurus in swamp, Space Attack, Space 104-Scramble, The Tempters, Circle of Terror, New World, The Cave Demon, Eve, The Return of Jongar, Thor's Flight, Witherwing, Frankenstein and Dracula, Las Vegas, Devil Rider, Sacrifice, The Secret People, Sound, Seven Romans, Flesh Eaters, Mothman, King Kong and Frazetta Self Portrait.


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