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Boris Vallejo

ボリス・バジェホ　/　ぼりす・ばじぇほ

Painter from Peru

January 8, 1941 (age 85)　・　Lima, Lima Department, Peru

Lima Department
painter
illustrator
cover artist

My Take

Boris Vallejo is one of those artists who quietly rewired my imagination. What grips me is the flesh and muscle in his work: hyper-real surfaces rendered so convincingly that impossible warriors and goddesses seem to actually breathe. The Inkpot, the British Fantasy Award, and a lifetime achievement Chesley aren't decoration; they mark a man who, having moved from Lima to the United States, conjured entire sword-and-sorcery worlds with a brush. For anyone who grew up devouring fantasy covers, his paintings are burned permanently into memory. I count myself among them, and I think his influence on the visual grammar of the genre is hard to overstate.

Overview

Boris Vallejo (born January 8, 1941) is a Peruvian-American painter who works in the science fiction, fantasy, and erotica genres. His hyper-representational paintings have appeared on the covers of numerous novels in the science fiction, sword and sorcery, and fantasy fiction genres, along with album covers for musical groups in addition to movie posters and other media.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Boris Vallejo
Name (Japanese): ボリス・バジェホ
Reading: ぼりす・ばじぇほ
Born: January 8, 1941 (age 85)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Snake
Origin: Lima, Lima Department, Peru
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: painter / illustrator / cover artist / poster artist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

1978 Inkpot Award
1979 British Fantasy Awards
2011 Chesley Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement
1980 Frank R Paul Award
2014 Chesley Award for Best Product Illustration
1979 Locus Award for Best Artist

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	Swords and Serpents	—

6. Links

Official sitehttps://www.borisjulie.com
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AC%E3%83%9B

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