Flowers, 1898

By Alphonse Mucha.

Lily

Carnation

Iris

Rose

World of Walt Disney

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Art by Gyo, 1955

1960s Girlie Mags

Don't forget to visit Vintage Girlie Mags.

Vintage Car Ads

Vintage automobile advertisements.

88 Oldsmobile, 1955

Chrysler, 1951

Rocket Oldsmobile, 1951

Plymouth, 1948

Ford, 1951

Dodge Lancer, 1955

Studebaker, 1955

Ford, 1954

Oldsmobile, 1956

General Motors, 1951

You can find more vintage ads here.

Zdenek Burian Artwork Blog

New posts will be slow for a while because I am recovering from ankle surgery. In the meantime check out this blog of Zdenek Burian Artwork.

Did Zdenek Burian Influence Frank Frazetta?

I have been a huge fan of Frank Frazetta for 8 years. He is my all time favorite painter. More recently I became a fan of Czech artist Zdenek Burian - a prolific European artist (lesser known in the United States) whose career was spent painting Dinosaurs, Cavemen and illustrations for adventure novels. Over the past few years I have been collecting Burian books and scanning the artwork.

The more I looked at Zdenek Burian's paintings the more I saw resemblances to Frank Frazetta's work in theme, subject matter and style.

Zdenek Burian

Frank Frazetta

Zdenek Burian

What I first noticed was how Frazetta's neanderthal design resembled the neanderthal design by Burian.

I then noticed this Dimorphodon painting by Burian. It almost seemed to be copied and pasted into the Frazetta painting you see below:


The Dimorphodon painting above pretty much sealed the deal for me: Frazetta was definitely influenced by Zdenek Burian. Below are some interesting similarities between the two prolific artists: