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War Dragon - Fantasy Meets a Harsh New Reality
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| War Dragon is the most powerful fantasy image in The Mountain's 2010 catalog, and perhaps our most disturbing shirt ever. There are other shirts in our Dark Fantasy section that might be considered more shocking in a traditional horror sense (certainly more gorey). But this skillful blending of a black dragon with World War I images of falling bombs, soldiers in gas masks, and graves hits home on a much more personal level. |
| It is precisely the fusion of the Fantasy art with the real world that makes this image so powerful. Normally there is an emotional refuge in knowing that fantasy artwork is from another world, another universe. No matter how realistically rendered a fire breathing dragon is, we can be reasonably confident that we will not encounter one. Through the ages war has always been a possibility, and usually a reality, that is always cruel and horrific in ways that trumps mere nightmares. |
| In War Dragon, the skulls bridge the two worlds: the skull pile behind the dragon clearly belongs to the realm of fantasy, while the hatched skull in the far background (and which ties the whole image together) speaks to the ultimate and timeless reality of war. |
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Evolution of a Dragon
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Blue Dragon was Romas Kukalis' first dragon for The Mountain, or at least the first one we know of. |
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Black Dragon was the original art on which this updated image was based. That shirt remains our all-time best-selling shirt from The Mountain. |
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Black Dragon was borrowed and adapted once before, evolving into a dragon out of Celtic legend in Celtic Cross Dragon. Looking closely, you can see that the dragon has been redrawn, it was not merely pasted to create this non-traditional Celtic dragon.
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Other New Dragon Shirts
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| Dragons have long been a priority here at Dharma Rose. We fancy ourselves as dragon hunters after a fashion, seeking out the best artwork featuring dragon images by top fantasy artists. Our Dragon Art Collection typically features about four-dozen dragon pictures with a variety of dragon themes from the traditional to new and unusual perspectives on these magical beasts. From traditional Tibetan and Chinese dragon art, to fierce fire dragons, and Gothic dragon skulls; green, red, black and blue dragons, even silver dragons, we have collected them all for you to browse. |
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| Dragon Reaper - Ed Beard, who has penned several of The Mountain's iconic fantasy designs, takes a darker path with this Gothic fantasy art for SkulBone where Death rides a dragon. |
| Fireball - Certain to become an instant classic, this artwork of a fiery red dragon climbing out of a lava pit by Vincent Hie is available on two shirt styles. |
| Peace Dragon - While we have not previously associated dragons with peace, this unusual piece of fantasy art does fit in nicely with The Mountain's new Peace motif. |
| Red Skull Dragon - A Blue Dragon has gone chameleon, and is now a classic red dragon. A flashier version of Skull Dragon is now available on a comfortable ringspun cotton shirt. |
| Samurai - Dragons have deep roots in many ancient traditions. Samurai honors the Japanese mythology. |
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