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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]} Hieronymus Bosch, (latinized; also Jeroen Bosch or his real name Jeroen van Aken) (c. ...

Gustave Doré's fantastic illustration of Orlando Furioso: defeating a sea monster

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]} Image File history File links Size of this preview: 475 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (958 × 1210 pixel, file size: 327 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Gustave Doré’s illustration of Ludovico Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso”. +/- File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 475 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (958 × 1210 pixel, file size: 327 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Gustave Doré’s illustration of Ludovico Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso”. +/- File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other... Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. ... Bruegels The Painter and The Connoisseur drawn c. ... Vertumnus, a portrait of Rudolf II. The Librarian, 1566, oil on canvas, Skoklosters Slott, Sweden Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 - July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books -- that is, he... The Crucifixion, central panel of the Isenheim Altarpiece Matthias Grünewald (1470-1528) is a highly regarded figure from the German Renaissance. ... Three Ages of the Woman and the Death 1510 Oil on limewood,48 x 32,5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Hans Baldung or Hans Baldung Grien/Grün (c. ... This article is about Francisco Goya, a Spanish painter. ... Self portrait of Gustav Moreau, 1850 Gustave Moreau (April 6, 1826 – April 18, 1898) was a French Symbolist painter. ... Spiriting (used with permission) Cal Henrik Max Magnus Norman (born July 30, 1973) is a Swedish artist, painter, and sculptor. ... Fuseli talking to Johann Jakob Bodmer, 1778-1781. ... Self portrait, 1880, Musée dOrsay. ... Max Klinger (1857-1920) was a Germany|German Symbolism (arts)|symbolist painter, sculpture|sculptor and printmaker. ... Self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1872 Arnold Böcklin (16 October 1827 – 16 January 1901) was a symbolist Swiss painter. ... William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips. ... Doré photographed by Felix Nadar. ... Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista) Piranesi (4th October 1720 in Mogliano Veneto (near Treviso) - 9th November 1778 in Rome) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric prisons {Carceri dInvenzione). ... Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech Marquis of Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), popularly known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish (Catalan) artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Johannes Franciscus Gijsbertus van den Berg (15 December 1919 in Rotterdam - 6 November 1998 in Fleurac) or just Johfra Bosschart was a Dutch modern artist. ... Early Morning, oil on canvas, 206cm x 175. ... Mati Klarwein (April 9, 1932 – March 7, 2002) was a German painter. ...

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 Parmigianinos Madonna with the Long Neck (1534-40), Mannerism makes itself known by elongated proportions, affected poses, and unclear perspective. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility 1942 Surrealism[1] is a movement stating that the liberation of our mind, and subsequently the liberation of the individual self and society, can be achieved by exercising the imaginative faculties of the unconscious mind to the attainment of a dream-like state different from, or... Mother Nature is surrounded by grottesche in this fresco detail from Villa dEste When commonly used in conversation, grotesque means strange, fantastic, ugly or bizarre, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks or gargoyles on churches. ... The word mythology (from the Greek μυολογία mythología, from μυολογείν mythologein to relate myths, from μύος mythos, meaning a narrative, and λόγος logos, meaning speech or argument) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and... For other uses of this term, see occult (disambiguation). ... Mysticism from the Greek μυστικός (mustikos) an initiate (of the Eleusinian Mysteries, μυστήρια (musteria) meaning initiation[1]) is the pursuit of achieving communion or identity with, or conscious awareness of, ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight; and the belief that such experience is one...

In French, the genre is called le fantastique, in English it is sometimes referred to as visionary art, grotesque art or mannerist art. Fantastique is a French term for a literary and cinematic genre that overlaps with parts of science fiction, horror and fantasy. ... In Parmigianinos Madonna with the Long Neck (1534-40), Mannerism makes itself known by elongated proportions, affected poses, and unclear perspective. ...

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]} Fantasy Art by Boris Vallejo Fantasy Art by George Grie Fantasy Art by Michael Parkes Fantasy Art by Heinz Zander Fantasy art is a genre of art that depicts magical or other supernatural themes, ideas, creatures or settings. ... Boris Vallejo, April 2005 Boris Vallejo (born January 8, 1941 in Lima, Peru) is a painter. ...

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
• Angerer der Ältere

Ernst Fuchs (b. ... De Es Schwertberger (born Dieter Schwertberger 1942, Gresten, Austria), commonly known simply as De Es (since 1972), is an Austrian artist, painter and modeller. ... Birth machine Hans Ruedi Giger (pronounced: GEE-ger) (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is a Swiss painter best known for his design work on the film Alien. ... Peter Gric is a well-known Czech painter living in Austria, who is best known for his mysterious abandoned futuristic architectural landscapes. ... Robert Venosa is an Spanish American painter who lives in Boulder, Colorado. ... Jacek Yerka Polish born artist in 1952, Jacek Yerka is a genius/mastermind whose surrealist paintings inspire vast imagination and utmost envy for the worlds he creates. ... Zdzisław Beksiński (24 February 1929 – 22 February 2005) was a renowned Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... Midora, 2004 Sean Mathew Hopp (born 1970) is a surrealist painter, graphic designer, musician, and the founder of the experimental art and music collective Mathbat [1]. His paintings are featured in public collections in Chicago, Los Angeles, and London, as well as many private collections throughout the US, Europe, and... Anne Sudworth is a British artist known for her paintings of magical earth light trees and haunting moonlit landscapes. ...

Books

• 2005 - Fantastic Art (Taschen)( Schurian, Prof. Dr. Walter) ISBN 978-3-8228-2954-7 (English edition)
• 2007 - Metamorphosis (beinArt) ISBN 978-0-9803231-0-8

See also

• Dream art
• Surrealism
• Neosurrealism
• Fantastic Art Centre
• Society for the Art of Imagination

Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes: The Dream, 1883 Dream art is any form of art directly based on material from dreams, or which employs dream-like imagery. ... Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility 1942 Surrealism[1] is a movement stating that the liberation of our mind, and subsequently the liberation of the individual self and society, can be achieved by exercising the imaginative faculties of the unconscious mind to the attainment of a dream-like state different from, or... Photography, Jerry Uelsmann Digital Art, George Grie Fine Art, HR Giger Neosurrealism in architecture Neosurrealism in pop-art Neosurrealism or Neo-Surrealism is a term that has been given to the reappearance of well-known surrealism movement in the late 1970s. ... The Fantastic Art Centre is a non profit research project founded by Christian De Boeck in 1977. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

External links

• beinArt.org - Website documenting living contemporary Surreal, Fantastic Realists and Visionary artists.