Nothing there that resembles the style of the artist I’m looking for. Thanks everyone for trying!
Nothing there that resembles the style of the artist I’m looking for. Thanks everyone for trying! And glad to have helped out Miller.:rolleyes:
Jeff Jones was active around then. He did more book covers than posters, but this sounds a bit like his milieu.
Something like this?
StG
Sorry to be a nattering nabob of negativism, but not Jones and not like the demon figure. Just a young, athletic but not heavily muscled figure, with angelic wings, and nursing a wounded shoulder that had a metal shoulder joint exposed. What started out as a reminiscence and mild curiousity has become a quest! But, I increasingly fear, a quixotic one.
Related: What’s that album cover with a male angel, naked, no genitalia (think heavy-metal Ken doll)?
Sure, kick me when I’m down!
If there’s any artist who likes to paint winged people on rocky crags it’s Brom, but he’s more of a late 80s / early 90s artist.
I think Jeff Jones is a good guess. But there’s a high likelihood it was one of the Heavy Metal / Metal Hurlant regulars.
Yep. Thanks. The lack of penis and balls always disturbed me a lot more than the alternative would have.
So, we’ve visited Brom, Boris, and Frazetta. Sounds like you’re starting a “Who’s Who” list of Heavy Metal cover painters, so let’s keep going:
Luis Royo
Julie Bell (can’t mention Boris Vallejo without her)
Richard Corben
Juan Jimenez
Chris Achilleos (he painted the Heavy Metal movie poster)
Simon Bisley
Plus, there’s the hyper-realistic airbrush art of Hajime “Sexy Robots” Sorayama to consider; he’s done non-robot work like you described as well, although it is frequently of an adult nature.
There’s a sandwich shop on Lemmon Avenue in Dallas, Texas, called The Great American Hero, and they have a totally 70’s airbrush poster of the same name hanging on the wall inside. Years ago, Dom, the owner/manager, gave me the only spare copy of the poster he had, but it had faded in the sun and was being eaten up by mold. I had once tracked down the artist, but could never get a new copy of the poster for myself.
The piece I’m thinking of was not in the hyper-realist, heavy metal style. More like Homer Winslow moving into religious fantasy art. That’s not accurate either, but closer than the heavy metal Frazetta genre. Probably more like Ken doll with angel wings and the exposed metal shoulder joint. This is revenge for my defence of the labour theory of value, isn’t it!?
Hmm, he kind of reminds me of NC Wyeth, except he’d never paint that subject matter.
Winslow Homer. Damn The Simpsons!
Yes, the style of Wyeth is closer, but as you say, not his idiom and it had a more contemporary feel to it, with less detail and a smaller palette. Not that I know anything at art, because if I did I’d be able to describe the damn thing I’m after in a way that would help people identify it. If I knew anything about art, I would not be interested in this piece in the first place!
Other artists of the period spring to mind:
Michael Kaluta
Mike Ploog
Barry Windsor-Smith
P. Craig Russell
Bernie Wrightson
the Brothers Hildebrandt
I was trying to think if there were any characters with wings in any of the Starstruck books that Kaluta illustrated, but I’m coming up empty. Pygar, the blind angel from Barbarella, keeps popping back into my mind, but there was nothing mechanical about him - not even in any of the far-out stylized posters for the movie.
I’m still thinking “album cover”.
Maybe you’re going in the right direction. I’m looking through Roger Dean’s artwork now … plenty of stuff with wings, but no cyborg angels like the OP describes.
OK, I got out my copy of Fantastic People by Allan Scott and Michael Scott Rohan. I knew there were some Roger Dean paintings in there, but there are no attributions for the artwork anywhere in the book.
Nonetheless, it’s taken me in some additional directions. Now I’m looking at Michael Whelan and Ron Walotsky.