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Boris
Vallejo and Julie Bell / USA
Born in Lima, Peru,
Boris attended the National School of Fine Arts in his native country
before immigrating to the United States in 1964. He has since done
a great volume of work for the Fantasy field, having worked for virtually
every major publishing house with a science fiction/fantasy line.
Boris has also illustrated for album covers, video box art and motion
picture advertising. His mastery of oil painting is immediately and
abundantly clear to anyone who looks at his work, and his classic
sense is as much an homage to the old masters as it is to anyone contemporaneously
working in the Fantasy genre.
Julie Bell has established herself as a force to be reckoned with,
rubbing elbows with the top luminaries of the art world. Born in Beaumont,
Texas, her art studies always centered around drawing, especially
of the human figure. Her unique sense of color and dramatic composition
puts her paintings in a class by themselves. Her, by now, legendary
"metal flesh" has the fluency of water and the hardness of steel while
maintaining the sensual softness of the skin. This magical effect
has become her unmistakable trademark. A former competitive bodybuilder,
Julie applies the same discipline and intensity to her art career.
At the heart of her art is an element of empowerment and independence.
Collections of her paintings have appeared in book form, calendars,
posters, trading cards, and other products too numerous to mention.
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