Proper nowadays artists - day 144: Boris Vallejo (Peru/ USA)

Boris Vallejo (1941, Peru)

Absolutely 100% the kind of art that art teachers tried to steer budding artists away from back in the day. “It’s too detailed”, “He needs to loosen up”, “People don’t really look like that”, “You need to move on from that” etc. etc. ad nauseum - in fact pretty much the same kind of mindless reactions to skilful art that are still floating around in the miasma of art education these days.

The first exposure to him I remember was the Ozzy album cover he did.

A global treasure.