{"id":7039,"date":"2016-04-11T11:50:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T11:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2017-02-11T14:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T14:27:43","slug":"fantasy-art-of-boris-vallejo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/movie\/fantasy-art-of-boris-vallejo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Art of Boris Vallejo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fantasy artist Boris Vallejo<\/strong><\/a> is best known\u00a0for his illustrations of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage and many other fantasy characters. His works are known and loved around the world. Boris is famous for his illustrations of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage and many other fantasy characters. \u00a0Vallejo\u00a0immigrated to the United States in 1964 from his homeland of Peru\u00a0at the age of 23, where he quickly garnered a fan following from his illustrations. \u00a0Vallejo has been hired to create\u00a0several movie posters as well advertisement and other commercial work including collectible items for the Franklin Mint and trading cards.<\/p>\n

Examples of\u00a0Vallejo’s movie posters.<\/p>\n

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Barbarella<\/strong> <\/a>(Paramount, R-1977) One Sheet
\nUnrestored, Folded<\/p>\n

Superb painting by Boris Vallejo created for the 1977 US re-release of the Sci-Fi erotic movie starring Jane Fonda.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a>The Empire Strikes Back<\/strong><\/a> (20th Century Fox, 1980) Commercial Poster
\nUnrestored, Rolled<\/p>\n

Rare commercial poster (out of a set of 3 – see the entire set<\/a><\/strong>) designed by Boris Vallejo for a Coca-Cola tie-in campaign with painting of Luke Skywalker on planet Hoth.<\/p>\n

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The Empire Strikes Back<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(20th Century Fox, 1980) Commercial Poster
\nUnrestored, Rolled<\/p>\n

Great illustration of Darth Vader by Boris Vallejo designed for a Coca-Cola commercial tie-in campaign\u00a0poster.<\/p>\n

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National Lampoon’s European Vacation<\/strong><\/a> (Warner Brothers, 1985) One Sheet
\nUnrestored, Folded<\/p>\n

Perhaps Boris Vallejo’s most recognized movie poster for the this sequel to the Chevy Chase classic.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a>Deathstalker II<\/strong><\/a> (Concorde Pictures, 1987) One Sheet
\nUnrestored, Rolled<\/p>\n

Superb painting by Boris Vallejo for this otherwise forgettable fantasy movie.<\/p>\n

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Fantasy artist Boris Vallejo is best known\u00a0for his illustrations of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage and many other fantasy characters. His works are known and loved around the world. Boris is famous for his illustrations of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage and many other fantasy characters. \u00a0Vallejo\u00a0immigrated to the United States in 1964<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8928,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions\/8928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}