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Game of Thrones writer reveals his favourite art

George R R Martin talks about his favourite art

Artist John Picacio has made his name creating fine art for book covers, and this one of Arya Stark is one of his favourites

With the Game of Thrones TV series snapping at the heels of the books, one sure-burn way of pissing George R R Martin off is to ask him when the next book volition be released. (The latest news is that The Winds of Winter volition exist come out before the sixth serial of Game of Thrones in 2016. Handy, as that season will be covering fabric from the book.)

What Martin is more than happy talking about, yet, is the wealth of art who've been inspired by his world of Ice and Fire – much of information technology commissioned by him.

Creative Bloq caught up with the author and talked about the art that first drew him to books, the benefits of obscure steamboats, and why he loves, "all the characters. Even the ones I impale horribly."

Yous were inspired past the books of Asimov and HP Lovecraft as a child, but when did art make an impact on you?

At that place wasn't a lot of art around other than cover art -– this is from my childhood, so we're talking from the 1950s.

In that location was ii master forms of packaging for sci-fi and fantasy in those days: Richard Powers covers, which were very surreal, abstract things with floating shapes and twisted elements. And then there was the more illustrative work by Ed Emshwiller and Frank Kelly Freas.

George R R Martin talks about his favourite art

Richard Powers fabricated his proper noun in the 1950s with his surreal book cover art

They were both great in their own way. I accept an original Powers in my collection, and several Emshwillers and a Freas, but certainly as a kid I preferred the Freas/Emsh arroyo where you were actually seeing spaceships and aliens, than the more abstruse fine art expect.

I actually didn't start getting into the sci-fi art per se until I started going to the conventions in the early 70s – the first was 1971.

George R R Martin talks about his favourite art

Frank Kelly Freas created more illustrative book covers, including this i that was reused by a sure rock ring called Queen

And of course and so they had the art prove, where y'all could get in and see a lot of the originals without the typography, and a lot of artists in those days would put their original paintings in there aslope some aspiring artists and amateurs and the work was available, looking back now, for ridiculously low prices.

I wish I had any money back then to purchase them, merely I didn't.

Ice and Fire seems linked to a medieval fourth dimension. Do yous like the fine art of that period?

Medieval-period art is a piddling too rough for my tastes. I hateful, these days, it looks very stylised. In terms of archetype art I respond more to the later on period – the Dutch masters and the Flemish masters, and the Pre-Raphaelites.

I went to a show about the Pre-Raphaelites that was going around the US in 2013 and information technology was amazing – all of that lush, romantic stuff, and a lot of information technology drawing on Romantic themes, though it wasn't painted in medieval times. Y'all know, knights and ladies and all of that. That stuff's gorgeous. I like that movement in general.

George R R Martin talks about his favourite art

Lush textures poured over with low-cal, John Everett Millais's oil-on-wood painting Mariana (1851) is of a character from Shakespeare's Measure for Mensurate

When we talk about artistic movements of the by, some of them are just scholars looking at people and grouping artists together and proverb, 'they were doing a movement'.

But with the Pre-Raphaelites they really were a motility, they all knew each other, they hung out together and they said, 'we are the Pre-Raphaelites'.

Side by side page: The 1 artist who got it correct, and killing his characters horribly

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