Fantastic art
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Fantastic art is an art genre. The parameters of fantastic art has been fairly rigorously 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.[1] With symbolism, it often shares its choice of themes such as mythology, occultism and mysticism, and generally seeks to depict the inner life.
Fantasy has been an integral part of art since its beginnings,[1] but has been particularly important in mannerism, magic realist painting, romantic art, symbolism, surrealism and lowbrow. In French, the genre is called le fantastique, in English it is sometimes referred to as visionary art, grotesque art or mannerist art. It has had a deep and circular interaction with fantasy literature.
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The first "fantastic" artist is generally said to be Hieronymus Bosch.[1] 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 DalÃ, Arik Brauer, Johfra, Odd Nerdrum, and Mati Klarwein.[citation needed]
- 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
- Bridget Bate Tichenor
- Jørgen Mahler Elbang
- Michèle Vincent
- Anne Sudworth
- Angerer der Ältere
- Oleg A. Korolev
- ^ a b c 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).
- 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 978-0-9803231-0-8
