- Fantastic art
Fantastic art is an art genre. The parameters of fantastic art has been fairly rigourously defined in the scholarship on the subject. It has traditionally been largely confined to painting and illustration, but since the 1970s has increasingly been found also in photography. Fantastic art explores fantasy, imagination, the dream state, the
grotesque , visions and the uncanny.Schurian, Walter (2005) Beyond Mere Understanding. In: "Fantastic Art", Schurian, W. & Grosenick, U. (Ed.), Taschen, Germany, p.6-25. ISBN 978-3-8228-2954-7 (English edition).] With symbolism, it often shares its choice of themes such asmythology ,occultism andmysticism , and generally seeks to depict the inner life.Fantasy has been an integral part of art since its beginnings, but has been particularly important in
mannerism , magic realist painting,romantic art , symbolism,surrealism andlowbrow . In French, the genre is called lefantastique , in English it is sometimes referred to as "visionary art", "grotesque art" or mannerist art. It has had a deep and circular interaction withfantasy literature .Historic artists
The first "fantastic" artist is generally said to be
Hieronymus Bosch . Other painters who have been labeled fantastic include Brueghel,Giuseppe Arcimboldo ,Matthias Grünewald , Hans Baldung Grien,Francisco de Goya ,Gustave Moreau ,Max Magnus Norman ,Henry Fuseli ,Odilon Redon ,Max Klinger ,Arnold Böcklin ,William Blake ,Gustave Doré ,Giovanni Battista Piranesi ,Salvador Dalí ,Arik Brauer ,Johfra ,Odd Nerdrum , andMati Klarwein .Fact|date=March 2007Contemporary Artists
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Frank Frazetta
*Michael Whelan
*Boris Valejo
*Larry Elmore
*Keith Parkinson
*Luis Royo
*Gerald Brom
*Ernst Fuchs
*De Es Schwertberger
*H.R. Giger
*Peter Gric
*Robert Venosa
*Gio' Myart
*Judson Huss
*Jacek Yerka
*Mark Ryden
* Von Stropp
* Damian Michaels
*Zdzisław Beksiński
*Antonio Roybal
* Lukasz Banach
*Sean Hopp
* Peter Proksch
*Jørgen Mahler Elbang
*Michèle Vincent
*Anne Sudworth
*Angerer der Ältere
*Oleg A. Korolev References
Further reading
* Coleman, A.D. (1977). "The Grotesque in Photography". New York: Summit, Ridge Press.
* Watney, Simon (1977). "Fantastic Painters". London: Thames & Hudson.
* Colombo, Attilio (1979). "Fantastic Photographs". London: Gordon Fraser.
* Johnson, Diana L. (1979). "Fantastic illustration and design in Britain, 1850-1930". Rhode Island School of Design.
* Krichbaum, Jorg & Zondergeld. R.A. (Eds.) (1985). "Dictionary of Fantastic Art". Barron's Educational Series.
* Menton, Seymour (1983). "Magic Realism Rediscovered 1918-1981". Philadelphia, The Art Alliance Press.
* Day, Holliday T. & Sturges, Hollister (1989). "Art of the Fantastic: Latin America, 1920-1987". Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art.
* Clair, Jean (1995). "Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe". Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
* Palumbo, Donald (Ed.) (1986). "Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film" (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy). Greenwood Press.
* Stathatos, John (2001). "A Vindication of Tlon: Photography and the Fantastic". Greece: Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
* Schurian, Prof. Dr. Walter (2005). "Fantastic Art". Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8228-2954-7 (English edition)
* beinArt collective (2007). "Metamorphosis". beinArt. ISBN 978-0-9803231-0-8ee also
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Fantasy art
*Dream art
*Surrealism
*Neosurrealism
*Fantastic Art Centre
*Society for the Art of Imagination
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