科幻插畫大師Boris Vallejo畫作

科幻插畫大師Boris Vallejo：
出生於秘魯首都利馬市的Boris，在1964年移居美國之前就讀於秘魯國家藝術學校。他為眾多的科學幻想出版社繪製了無數的精美作品。Boris也經常為書刊封麵、盒式影帶、動畫廣告繪製插圖。

他對繪畫技巧的精湛技藝，使得任何看到他作品的人都能很快的辨認出他風格，以至於他的那些經典的作品讓那些長期從事幻想題材的其他流派畫家都肅然起敬。

Boris的畫麵經常使用那些異常美麗少女和另人恐怖的怪獸作為題材，向世人展示這他那種大膽、清晰、勇於突破極限的繪畫風格。

Boris驚世的油畫風格向世人展示了他那種不平凡的寫實風格。他的作品經常充斥的神話人物，他使用著被喻為“夢幻照 片”的畫筆，描繪著那些超寫實主義的虛幻角色、生物和逼真的幻境。 三十多年來，Boris使用他那精湛的技藝和對顏色、線條、材料的純粹本能感覺來創作。其結果是，人們可以在各種書籍、雜誌、紀念冊、日曆、海報上見到大量的Boris作品。

Boris是一個實用主義藝術家。他並不期待那些博物館和藝術收藏家有一天會收藏他的作品，因為現今實用藝術經常別歸 到商用美術類上去。有一種圖書在美國經常可以保持5-6萬銷售量。所有的這些書，他們都有一個新穎的驚人的內容，同樣也 需要一個醒目的封麵。一幅迷人的圖片常常可以吸引大量的消費者，同時也帶來豐厚的利潤，而現今，我們可以肯定斷言 Boris是圖書封麵藝術的無冕之王。

BORIS VALLEJO

Boris Vallejo was born in Lima, Peru in 1941 to a distinguished solicitor. He became interested in art and music at an early age. He studied violin for 7 years. For 2 years he attended a pre-medical course but then with the encouragement of his friends who had noticed how well he drew, he enrolled in the graphic arts division of Peru's Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes' (National School of Fine Arts) where he received a 5 year scholarship.

He was 16 years old when he received an offer to study in Florence, but he refused it. With he confidence growing, in 1964, unable to speak English and only $80 in his pocket, he put together a portfolio of his work and came to the United States. Even though he had no friends or relatives here, with the help of a few other Peruvian immigrants he had met, he quickly found a job in the advertising department of a trust company in Hartford, Connecticut. Later he transferred to the New York office.

After 2 years, he became a freelance graphic artist taking on any work he could find, from advertising graphics to Christmas cards. He soon moved to comics where he could express his creativity with monsters and his vision of heroes with bulging muscles. His forms of winged creatures fighting heroes and heroines became very popular.

A master of his art, Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell(who has become a master of his style as well) have continued to amaze and excite their growing number of fans with his unique style of barbarian art.

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