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2001: A Space Odyssey (Floyd Gottfredson/Stanley Kubrick) - Dr. Vulter, Mickey Mouse

Artist: Alberto Lavoradori (All)

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2001: A Space Odyssey (Floyd Gottfredson/Stanley Kubrick) - Dr. Vulter, Mickey Mouse Comic Art

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Artwork Details

Title:	2001: A Space Odyssey (Floyd Gottfredson/Stanley Kubrick) - Dr. Vulter, Mickey Mouse
Artist:	Alberto Lavoradori (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	7,113
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	4/11/2016
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Description

I already wrote that every Hybrid piece is special to me, and this one makes no exception.

Alberto here recreates a scene from the "Dawn of Man" sequence in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" movie, making use of (Gottfredson's) Dr. Vulter.

The movie sequence is highly symbolic, with the ape smashing a skull probably representing the moment in which apes learn how to use bones as weapons, marking a crucial passage on the evolution scale, and the monolith (an artifact of an alien civilization) is somehow playing an active role in these changes. But really, this is only one of the many possible interpretations.

Similarly, you can get your idea of this hybrid. What does Dr. Vulture represent, and the monolith? Are those Mickey's bones and skull?

A striking and powerful image, beautifully composed, that pays tribute to the geniuses of both Stanley Kubrick (all-time top director, if you ask me) and Floyd Gottfredson (without him, Mickey Mouse's world wouldn't be the same).

Also included, in the additional images, are the prelims and a magnificent color version (always by Alberto).

Please check the other pieces in the series:
- 01) The DUCK Thing (Rodolfo Cimino/John Carpenter)
- 02) The DUCK Brood (Luciano Bottaro/David Cronenberg)
- 03) Stalker (Giovan Battista Carpi/Andreij Tarkovskij)
- 04) Valhalla Rising (Massimo De Vita/Nicolas Winding Refn)
- 05) I Giorni Contati (Carl Barks/Elio Petri)
- 06) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Floyd Gottfredson/Stanley Kubrick)
- 07) The Birds (Romano Scarpa/Alfred Hitchcock)
- 08) The Abyss (Giorgio Cavazzano/James Cameron)
- 09) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Corrado Mastantuono/Don Siegel)
- 10) The Man Who Fell to Earth (Carlo Chendi/Nicolas Roeg)
- 11) Gi� la Testa (Ub Iwerks/Sergio Leone)
- 12) Eraserhead (Al Hubbard/David Lynch)
- 13) Dersu Uzala (Al Taliaferro/Akira Kurosawa)
- 14) The Zero Theorem (Bill Walsh/Terry Gilliam)
- 15) Gran Torino (Dick Kinney/Clint Eastwood)
- 16) Breathless (Paul Murry/Jean-Luc Godard)
- 17) Edward Scissorhands (Walt Disney/Tim Burton)
- 18) Wild Strawberries (Ward Kimball/Ingmar Bergman)
- 19) Altered States (Vic Lockman/Ken Russell)
- 20) Kill Bill (Marc Davis//Quentin Tarantino)
- 21) Mackenna's Gold (Guido Martina/J. Lee Thompson)
- 22) The Belly of an Architect (Mary J. Blair/Peter Greenaway)
- 23) The Beyond (Bill Peet/Lucio Fulci)
- 24) Taste of Cherry (E.H. Shepard/Abbas Kiarostami)

Thanks, Alberto!!!

Paper size: 25 x 35 cm

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William B.
Member Since 2004

Posted on 4/11/2016

Dr. Vulter! An unusual character in an unusual pose :)

Alessandro Pignatelli
Member Since 2020

1 - Posted on 9/28/2023

Amazing!

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