Red Planet 1974

Frank Frazetta painted 'Red Planet' with oils, and it's all about process, like watching a painterly dance unfold right before your eyes. Check out how he's laid down the paint, thick in some areas, thin and transparent in others. It feels like he's wrestling with the medium, almost sculpting the forms directly on the canvas. Look at the rendering of the muscular male figure with the gun. See how he's built up the planes of the body with these bold, confident strokes. It's like he's saying, "I'm not going to hide the process, I'm going to celebrate it!" Frazetta reminds me a bit of painters like Cecily Brown, who also embraces this idea of artmaking as a messy, intuitive journey. It's not about perfection; it's about capturing a feeling, an energy, a sense of raw, untamed imagination. And isn't that what art is all about?