Fantastic art
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Fantastic art is a loosely defined art genre. The first "fantastic" artist is generally believed to be Hieronymus Bosch.[citation needed]
Other artists 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, and Mati Klarwein.[citation needed]
Fantasy has been an integral part of art since its beginnings,[citation needed] but has been particularly important in mannerism, romantic art, symbolism and surrealism. fantastic art celebrates fantasy, imagination, dreamworlds, the grotesque, visions and other-worldliness.[citation needed] With symbolism, it shares its choice of themes such as mythology, occultism and mysticism.
In French, the genre is called le fantastique, in English it is sometimes referred to as visionary art, grotesque art or mannerist art.
Fantastic art should not be confused with fantasy art, which is the domain of science-fiction and fantasy illustrators such as Boris Vallejo and others.[citation needed]
[edit] Contemporary Artists
- Ernst Fuchs
- De Es Schwertberger
- H.R. Giger
- Peter Gric
- Robert Venosa
- Gio' Myart
- Judson Huss
- Jacek Yerka
- Von Stropp
- Damian Michaels
- Zdzislaw Beksinski
- Antonio Roybal
- Lukasz Banach
- Sean Hopp
- Peter Proksch
- Jørgen Mahler Elbang
- Michèle Vincent
- Anne Sudworth
[edit] See also
[edit] External Links
- beinArt.org - Website documenting living contemporary Surreal, Fantastic Realists and Visionary artists.
- Fantastic Art Centre
- Society for the Art of Imagination
