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Originally Posted by Michele Rushworth
. . . Frazetta was aiming at. . . . 15 to 20 year old males . . . with Barbie doll figures . . .
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"Fantasy" illustration entailed a bit more complex "market" demography 30-40 years ago than you describe, Michele, and Frazetta set the standard.
With all due respect, I don't find his female figures "Barbies". On the whole, they're much broader in the beam than the "Playboy/Penthouse" standardl for titillation, and look seriously buff enough to handle that spear or sword and slay a dragon, charging polar bear, or army of weird aliens, thank you. (yet they retain their sensual "allure"!)
At least equally represented, if not actually dominant in his ouvre is
her male counterpart, also scantily clad and revealing believable brawn, and perhaps is one answer to this question as to an aesthetic direction one might apply in paintings of "appealing" males . . . ?
(I've got my own problems . . . triple portrait of three teen-aged brothers . . .)
