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Vic Fair, Lords of Discipline (1983) movie poster painting (prototype) - Original Illustration
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Lords of Discipline (1983) movie poster painting (prototype)

Original Illustration
1983
Acrylic
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Vic Fair prototype painting for the 1983 movie, THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE, showcasing a surrealistic image that sadly went unused.

"Will arrives for his last year at The Carolina Military Institute, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960s. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so."

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About Vic Fair

Victor Fair was born in Chadwell Heath, Essex, on 18 March 1938. His father was an industrial designer for Ford who died when Victor was aged four. He left school aged 16 and got a job as a messenger boy for the Hector Hughes design agency and attended life drawing classes at St Martin's School of Art in the evening. After Hector Hughes he worked at the Dixons agency. In the mid 1950s, Fair started his national service in the British Army when he served in Cyprus during the EOKA guerrilla campaign. He could have avoided service, having previously suffered from tuberculosis and other medical conditions, but saw his enlistment as an opportunity to get away from a claustrophobic home life with his mother and sister where he was the man of the house following his father's death.[2] One of his jobs in the army was to search villages for weapons but he was more often to be found sketching the natives.