Pulp Art by Robert Lesser

Author:Robert Lesser [Lesser, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Art
ISBN: 1402730357
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Published: 2012-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

“Tarzan, Guard of the Jungle” in a neoimpressionist style that results in a visual fluidity that propels the action of the scene. [Back to Essay]

If the images of the Lord of the Jungle are art, then the art of Burne Hogarth cannot be ignored. He drew the Tarzan Sunday-newspaper comics from 1937 to 1950. The originals were black-and-white inked drawings done on bristol board twice the size of the printed panels. He replaced another comics giant, Hal Foster of Prince Valiant fame, and transformed the Tarzan panels with a unique approach to comic art based upon his studies of human anatomy and his appreciation of the fine draftsmanship of Michelangelo and the artists of the baroque period. His style was like nothing that came before or since. The accent was on anatomy in motion, long muscles distorted, apes and men and tigers twisting beautifully through the sky, as if suspended in the air by their own sheer strength. The action was set against a background of razor-sharp trees and mountains, of birds and beasts with cutting beaks, claws, and teeth, all merging into a continuous illusion of motion.

In 1966 Hogarth’s works were shown in Paris, and the brilliant French critic Francis Lacassin said in his article “Hogarth Between Wonder and Madness” (Giff-Wiff no. 13, 1965, Paris):

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