The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism was a group of artists formed in Austria in 1946. It included Ernst Fuchs, Rudolph Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Fritz Janschka, all students of Professor Albert Paris von Gutersloh at the Vienna Academy. It was von Gutersloh's emphasis on the techniques of the Old Masters that gave the Fantastic Realism painters a grounding in realism (expressed with a clarity and detail some have compared to early Flemish painting) combined with religious and esoteric symbolism. The Vienna School initially identified itself with surrealism, although many surrealists were critical of it.
Fantastic Realism is occasionally used as a general term to describe any painting technique in which great, perhaps obsessive attention is paid to naturalistic detail in the depiction of the unreal; Litsa Spathi is one of a newer generation who works in this tradition.
Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary.
Realism holds that in pursuit of that security, states will attempt to amass resources, and that relations between states are determined by their relative level of power.
The theory of maximal realism holds that the most desirable position to be in is that of the hegemon, the most powerful entity in the world, and that smaller entities will align themselves with the hegemon out of political self-interests.
Realism is commonly applied to a 19th century school of writers and artists; but realism, in it's prime and proper sense, is as old as art and literature themselves, but in the hands of it's most notorious exponents in the 20th century, it quickly degenerated into a connotation of the more sinister features of realism.
Realism is commonly applied to a 19th century school of writers and artists; but realism, in it's prime and proper sense, is as old as art and literature themselves, but in the hands of it's most notorious exponents, it quickly degenerated into a connotation of the more sinister features of realism.
FantasticRealism on the other hand, is born of these movements and tied to them in style and technique, but prefers to explore subjects that are strange or strikingly unusual rather than scenes of everyday life or objects.
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