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Boris Vallejo was born in Lima, Peru, where his father was a successful lawyer. The boy was going to make a career in music, seven for long years learning to play the violin. For two years he studied at the preparatory department of the Faculty of Medicine. Noticing Boris's talent as a draftsman, his comrades force him to enroll in the applied graphics department of the National School of Art in Peru. The anatomy lessons were not in vain: the best graduating student was offered to study in Florence. Boris refused to go to Europe! The dream of New York brought the owner of 80 dollars to America. In 1964 he didn't know in English. At first, fellow countrymen helped me find inexpensive housing. In the advertising department of a large company, he did grunt work, not disdaining comic books and Christmas cards. Gradually Boris developed his own unique style. Playing different styles, he developed a system of his own images. For six months he worked in Hartford, then in Connecticut, and only then at the company's New York headquarters. There he met his future wife Doris. Two years later he left the company and became free graphic artist. For eight long years he took on any order, learning in practice the underbelly of the press world and the cruel laws of the publishing business. The first success came to the artist in 1975. His posters and postcards were noticed by Marvel Comics. At first, he combined his work on Christmas cards with a series of drawings for comics. Boris then switches to book covers. In 1976 he received a series of orders from book publishing house Ballantine Books. The innovative artist painstakingly worked on illustrations for the Tarzan series of books. The Latin American refused the graceful, fair-haired and blue-eyed Europeans. In return, the Peruvian offered brute strength, muscles, courage and... sexuality! The work on "Tarzan" was so successful that the covers and illustrations were printed separate publication. They sold out instantly! From now on, Valeggio's favorite male character is the noble barbarian. Courageous, athletic and sexy savages are present in almost every picture. Where would we be without women? The wide-hipped heroines of the 60s and 70s were replaced by athletically graceful and attractive warriors. Women Boris Valeggio is the embodiment of inviting beauty, magical grace and athletic physique. Be it a slave or a proud Amazon, an angel or a demon. Wife Doris and fashion model Daniella Enjo are the artist's models. And the male model was often mirror reflection his own body. Boris Valeggio is the leader of Fantasy Art. In this deeply erotic genre, various demons and aggressive monsters confront the world of beauty. Valeggio's special bestiary contains many fantastic creatures: lizards with with female hands, wolves with men's heads, people with animal skin, dragons with butterfly wings, flying centaurs, etc. Most of them are sexual predators who want to get pleasure from human flesh. Sexual violence is the norm in the world of Boris Valeggio. And this is not surprising. Essentially, Fantasy Art is a fixation forbidden desires from our erotic dreams. In our sleep, our bodies undergo any transformation. The female body is a special world of magic. The magic of a witch lies in the limitless possibilities of her chest and legs. The witches of Boris Valeggio are a topic for another discussion. It is the attractive eroticism female body makes some people pick up a brush and dream (like Gogol or Valeggio). And others - to leave the bottomless wells of darkness in order to fulfill a woman's momentary whim. Since Gogol's Viy, no one else in art has been able to so thickly whip up an artistic cocktail of images of lovers and demons of the black depths. Inner world the witches are darker and more mysterious than her slanted eyes. At the witching midnight, the starry distances open in the eyes of the witch. Is it not the star theme that explains Boris Valeggio’s passion for witches with glowing eyes? Dark Sides female soul- this is Valeggio's deepest secret. Did Boris communicate a lot with witches, did the painter attend Bulgakov’s Sabbaths, have fun on comets, or indulge in sadness on the outskirts of the Universe? He alone knows this. The artist’s bold brush speaks more eloquently than words about the forbidden pleasures of fabulous bestiality, the indescribable joys of space sex and night flight over a tiny planet. Valeggio radically changed the basic principles of commercial "fantastic" painting. He created a new feminine sex symbol, bogged down athletic body with witch eyes. A woman whose image can be fantasized ad infinitum. In general, Boris Valeggio's paintings speak of beauty human body. About the need to resist the urges of animal passion. Through the creation of new worlds, he expanded the inner space of his viewers. Taught us to be braver. For the Valeggio Universe is a cult of extremely erotic transformations. Having become a famous and popular artist relatively long ago and quickly, Valeggio is now releasing one album after another. Without a doubt, he is the prophet and sovereign ruler of the Fantasy Art genre. Author of the new sexual world A host of beauties and heroes, monsters and witches proudly walks ahead. For Boris Valeggio himself, the newly opened paths are strewn with roses and the gold of huge fees. But where will they take the viewer? Who will each of us be embodied in the erotic dreams of the coming night - a monster or a hero? Let everyone make their own choice.
1941-Boris Vallejo (Spanish: Boris Vallejo) - American artist. Born January 8, 1941 in Lima, Peru. In 1964 he emigrated to the USA, where he currently lives. *** Married to artist and collaborator Julia Bell. From his previous marriage to Doris, he has two children: son Dorian and daughter Maya, who are also involved in the visual arts. Vallejo is best known as a cover designer for books in the fantasy genre. His paintings are notable for their abundance of nudes, both male and female. At the same time, Boris’s wife, artist Julia Bell, often acts as a model, and he himself serves as a sitter for her paintings. The fact is that I myself have been involved in bodybuilding since I was sixteen years old. In my opinion, it is not surprising that I am interested in portraying people with beautiful and strong bodies. A naked body is natural. And if there was no sex, then none of us would simply exist. The frankness of Boris's works won him both numerous fans and many critics. For example, Andrzej Sapkowski wrote in his essay “No Gold in the Gray Mountains”: The publisher is aiming at the so-called IROY. And the so-called YARY wants Boris Vallejo on the cover, he wants half-naked asses and busts that are ready to roll out of an armored bra. YARY does not look for meaning in fantasy, because the meaning is absolutely obliged to cry out that no one goes into battle in openwork armor, because in such armor it is not only dangerous to fight, in such armor it is even impossible to wade through thickets of nettles. In addition to books and comics, Boris designs music CDs. The Romantic Collection, a series of collections of 20th-century pop music, features works entirely by Vallejo and Luis Royo. Personal life Vallejo is married to artist Julie Bell, whose artistic style is very similar to Vallejo's. He has two children from his previous marriage to artist and writer Doris Vallejo, as well as two stepchildren. His son, Dorian Vallejo, also paints fantasy, but now works as a portrait painter. His daughter, Maya Vallejo, is a professional photographer. His stepsons, Anthony Palumbo and David Palumbo, are both artists and work for fine art galleries and as science fiction/fantasy illustrators.
Grace, grace, strength, charm, magic, struggle, passion - this is not a series of adjectives, but just a characteristic of the paintings of Boris Valeggio. As soon as you glance at the image for a moment, it’s as if a ball of boiling lava rises inside, rushing out. Boris Valeggio is the genius of modern Fantasy Art.
Path to the top
Artist Boris Valeggio was born in 1941 in Peru. His father was a famous lawyer, and Boris himself wanted to become a musician and devoted 7 long years to playing the violin. However, something went wrong; he spent two years studying at the medical department. In between, I was interested in drawing.
One day, his comrades saw his drawings and advised him to enter the National School of Arts. He becomes the best graduate and receives a job offer in Florence. But going to Europe meant changing my dream of living in the States. Therefore, with $80, he migrated to the United States in 1964.
Without knowledge of the language, housing and money, a native of Peru is forced to be a laborer in one of the American companies, scattering his talent on comics and Greeting Cards. Over time, Boris finds his style in fine arts, develops a personal system of images. For six months he wanders from city to city - Hartfort, Connecticut, New York. After 2 years he becomes a freelance artist, and for 8 years he takes on any order that comes his way, feeling on his own skin all the cruel realities of the publishing world.
Only in 1975 did the first long-awaited success come to him. The Marvel Comics publishing house pays attention to his works. First he is offered work with postcards, then with comics and, finally, with book covers.
1976 - the publishing house "Balantine Books" orders covers for books about Tarzan from Boris Valeggio. He knew how to please the public, abandoning the gracefulness of the European “man”, Valeggio presented the world with unprecedented power, a mountain of muscles, a bold and sexy man. It is at this moment that Boris Valeggio's talent comes out of the shadows.
Men and women
The artist Boris Valeggio, whose paintings are known throughout the world, changed the idea of the ideal man and woman in the world of fantasy. The male character personifies the noble barbarian. Savages, athletic, sexy and masculine, are present in almost every picture.
While creating fantasy paintings, Boris Valeggio did not lose sight of the fair sex. If in the 60-70s heroines with wide hips were popular, now they have been replaced by athletic, majestic and graceful warrior witches. The athletic build, magical lightness and fantasy-based plot seem to say - this is Boris Valeggio. The artist's paintings are considered the best in the Fantasy Art genre.
Captivated by forbidden desires
Erotica. Exactly most of people who have seen his paintings characterize what Boris Valeggio creates. The paintings of this artist are like someone else, other world. Here, sexual violence, the desire for pleasure and human flesh are the order of the day, which confronts monsters and demons. Merging together, each element of the picture seems to oppose the world of tender and beautiful. It's as if Boris Valeggio is challenging him. The paintings that come out of his brush show the truth, reveal hidden human desires that can only exist on the border between the fictional and the real.
BORIS VALLEJO- "applied" artist. He does not expect frantic demand for his works from museums and art galleries because currently applied areas in art generally fall under the category of commercial art. Every year in the USA alone a huge number of books are published - from 50 to 60 thousand. Any book, be it a thriller or love story, should have a smart and attractive cover. A “seductive” image or picture will always provide the publisher with significant larger number buyers and profit volume, and we will take the liberty to say that from this point of view, Boris Vallejo is the unrecognized king of dust jacket art.
After the publication of a new edition of John Herman's adventure series and Gar's stories in the late 1970s, the publisher was pleasantly surprised by the sales results, and he became convinced that the choice of Vallejo as the cover artist was unquestionable wise decision. Many readers who already owned Gar's novels bought the new edition simply because they liked the cover! Vallejo could regard himself as a truly popular artist; who, like any other artist who creates popular art forms, also often underestimated by aesthetes, may not feel discomfort when someone looks at his work with contempt.
Undoubtedly, there is something special about Vallejo's work that makes a deep impression, even though it may not influence artistic taste person. This is, of course, the result of a conscious effort and a well-thought-out method. There is no secret about this: Vallejo openly talked about it in a book about himself, published by Ballantine Books, the main customer for his work. First, the artist’s creative, or, let’s say, “classical” imagination begins to work. The artist captures the essence of the mood of the scene, for which he then makes a sketch in the form of a "living image". The sketch that begins this path is brighter, more subtle and drawn freer and less clearly than final result. Perhaps this approach could be the best way to Parnassus, but that is not Vallejo's goal. It is important to attract the attention of as many people as possible: books must be a commercial success. The purchasing power of a book depends on whether the cover suits the taste of the middle class buyer and on how much it touches life ordinary person. Advertising tricks of the trade and the tactics of using famous movie stars to sell products also cannot be discounted as a means of marketing a product.
How does the initial sketch transform into the inimitable and instantly recognizable Vallejo style final result?
The first step: choosing a model that best matches the figure and image in the sketch, and photographing her in exact poses. Vallejo doesn't spend too much time looking and in most cases he is the model for himself. male figures(you see, it can be useful for an artist to have a muscular body). At first, as female model Boris used his wife, Doris Mayer. The current model is his wife Julia Bell, also an artist. Of course, when painting the Nubian warrior, Vallejo is not posing for the camera. He also hires models for various female types. He successfully copies photographs onto a painting and then applies shadows with brown acrylic. This gives plasticity to the forms, and the paint dries quickly, making it possible to apply new colors without having to mix them with the base. For this reason, most painters whose works are reprinted are satisfied with this technique. But not Vallejo: to a certain extent, it also uses traditional methods. He sketches with oil paints softened in turpentine when working on more detailed parts.
Boris is as familiar with the heroic poses of barbarian warriors as he is with the poetic description of a mysteriously romantic landscape or the eerie appearance of bizarre creatures from an alien world. The composition and colors of these stunning works of art confront the observer with the fact that they are influenced by the art of painting over several centuries. "Vermeer, Rembrandt, Leonardo - in their teenage years I studied the works of such masters again and again. However, my favorite painters were two Spaniards - Murillo and Velazquez."
But even today Boris expresses big interest to the work of their colleagues. There is no complacency in his attitude and he refuses to rest on his laurels. He continues to seek new inspiration, continuously strives to be higher than what he has achieved, and tries to become even more perfect and magnificent.
Vallejo can do several different things at the same time: in his humorous sketches, created for his own pleasure, he parodies himself and the entire genre. But he doesn't want to sell any of this. Why not? Vallejo and his genre are already “promoted”. He has won his fans, whose number continues to grow, and who accept him for who he is. That's why he no longer has to grasp at any offer like straws.
Boris Valeggio, or Vallejo as he is also called, is a contemporary artist whose creative path followed a winding path that ultimately led him to worldwide recognition.
Creativity
Valeggio was born in Peru, but he actively showed his artistic talents in the United States, which is why many sources call him a Peruvian-American representative of art.
It will be superfluous to talk about how the future representative of the “fantasy” style loved to draw from childhood, since this is indicated by his preferences in choosing educational institution. Boris successfully completed his studies at National School Arts at home - in Lima. His success was so remarkable that he received a grant to study painting in Florence. The rebellious spirit that the author would eventually “pour” into his fantasy paintings was thoroughly demonstrated by Boris Valeggio when he refused the benefits provided to him and went to the USA with a few tens of dollars.
The young man had a hard time at first. He was forced to wander through cities in search of best conditions for existence. Valeggio spent the first two years of his stay in the country of enormous opportunity as a hired worker, and then was able to afford to become a free artist. It must be said that this status was rather a fiction, since for the next eight years he tried in every possible way to realize his potential, creating illustrations in the “fantasy” style for large publishing houses in the country.
Own style
Working meticulously to realize fantastic characters, Vallejo formed his own style of writing. His main activity was creating illustrations for films. Over time, the artist was able to translate his ideas into the creation of graphic advertising. Paintings in the Valeggio style are certainly sketches with the participation of fantastic characters, which are distinguished by the realism of the image.
IN artistic style Boris is considered a fantasy writer. Looking at his works, you involuntarily plunge into the world of good dreams or rampant nightmares he depicts.
Main characters
The paintings created by Valeggio reflect mainly heroic images people with superhuman abilities. Among the frequently encountered images of the artist one can notice the images of mythical gods, Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, mystical creatures. The bodies of the characters are depicted grotesquely, as if they all spend 24 hours a day in gyms and take steroids. However, this only applies male characters. Women, on the contrary, have voluminous shapes and look very erotic. However, this is one of distinctive features fantasy style.
The images of heroes are never based on sketches from life. This is the fundamental rule for drawing a Valeggio painting. Photos of the sitters - here a starting point to start working on the canvas. The point is not that Boris lacks experience or patience. He drew a lot from life before he came to the optimal formula for his work. Valeggio takes the photo and begins to depict it on canvas. As each stroke appears, the master appears images that allow him to transform real hero one who can take on the task of saving the world or a beautiful woman.
Animals in the artist's works
Valeggio creates paintings with amazing realism. Its secret lies in a long journey of studying the anatomy of humans and animals.
A close study of his work cannot help but notice that central characters most often are those that look like hybrids of an animal and plant worlds. They certainly show human traits, however, in general the creatures look like an entity unknown to the world.
The whole point creative path Valeggio's idea is to transfer a fictional world with non-existent characters onto canvas and give them life, giving them biomechanics and mysticism. In many of his works one can trace the artist's unique ability to combine individual physiological aspects of different animals so that ultimately a new biological species is born.
about the eternal struggle between good and evil
The artist’s works met with many reviews along the way, including admiration and outright criticism. The fact is that many of the paintings are permeated with overt eroticism, which is intertwined with symbolic battles of good and evil. In his paintings you can see how the most evil and powerful evil spirits were able to cope with their inner evil thanks to hugs charming beauties, captivating them with the perfection of forms. In the artist's work special role played by ladies who provoke men to perform feats.
At the same time, they often act as diplomats who, with their beauty, were able to stop evil monsters. Perhaps it is no coincidence that this can be seen in the works of Valeggio. The paintings were largely created with the physical and moral support of the painter’s wife, Julia Bell, who repeatedly posed for individual scenes. Their family tandem is closely connected by artistic ties. Julia is also an artist who paints in a similar style to her husband.
