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CARICATURES & FAN ART collects examples of art that caricaturize and satirize the image and legend of Elvis Presley. These include drawings, paintings, sculpture, and computer generated art.
Most of the art is caricatures of Elvis—some done during his lifetime, but much of it by the many artists still producing extraordinary art about Elvis—but I do include an occasional piece of “fan art.”
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ELVIS’ GOLDEN CARICATURES VOLUME 3 is the third volume of caricatures of Presley rockin’ and shakin’ and rattlin’ and rollin’ the ’50s! Like the first volume, this collects fifteen images of the singer/actor in his youthful prime. There are fourteen images in the main gallery, and there is the featured image found at the top of the page and below the gallery. [Continue reading]
ELVIS’ GOLDEN CARICATURES VOLUME 2 is the second volume of caricatures of Presley shakin’ an’ rattlin’ an’ rockin’ an’ rollin’ the ’50s! Like the first volume, this collects fifteen images of the singer/actor in his youthful prime. [Continue reading]
AS AN ART SCHOOL DROP-OUT, I enjoy many types of art, from the Old Masters to Monet and Matisse, Braque and Picasso, Duchamp and Arp, Rauschenberg and Pollock, and that finest of art teachers, Robert Henri. [Continue reading]
THE FIRST CARICATURE of Elvis Presley appeared in July 1956 in Collier’s magazine. The drawing was by the inimitable Hirschfeld, and it was clean, simple, and effective. But it was a rather bland drawing, lacking the pizazz usually associated with his work—as if he wasn’t particularly interested in his subject. [Continue reading]
ELVIS IN THE ’60s has not captured the attention of caricaturists as much as the Elvis of the ’50s and the ’70s. In the former, he was vibrant, sexy, charismatic, and at times a man-of-many-faces. In the latter, he was resplendent, then predictable, and finally, tragic if not pathetic. [Continue reading]