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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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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. I also love a good cartoonist, whether it’s teams that made the original Disney and Warner Brothers classics, or those of the modern Ghibli Studio. READ MORE
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. Nonetheless, Hirschfeld continued to draw Presley several times through the years. READ MORE
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. In between—mainly 1962 through 1967—his image was often so damn wholesome, so non-sexy, he might as well have been spayed! READ MORE