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9 May, 2013: updated Sandra Chang 29 April, 2013: Welcome Elena Dudina! 21 April, 2013: Welcome Brooke Gillette! 16 April, 2013: updated Nicole Cardiff! 11 April, 2013: updated Roberto Campus! 08 April, 2013: Welcome Lee Simpson! 05 April, 2013: updated Clyde Caldwell |
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Fantasy Gallery is composed exclusively of great fantasy artists.I am dedicated to linking the people of the world to the world of art. My mission is to provide a high quality online gallery and a best place to meet both for the connoisseurs of art and for the artists. Many hours it has been searching for fantasy art and here I have gatherd the ones I love. With each artists page there is a link to their webpage and contact information. Immerse yourself in the magical world with this Fantasy Gallery! |
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” ― Anaïs Nin |
Please do not download, publish, or use anything from this art gallery without permission from the artist in question. A link to the artists' website and their e-mail is provided with each fantasy artwork.
Fantasy art is a genre of art that depicts magical or other supernatural themes, ideas, creatures and settings. While there is some overlap with science fiction, horror and other speculative fiction art, there are unique elements not generally found in other forms of speculative fiction art. Depictions of ancient myths and legends, as well as depictions of modern day fantasy in the form of divine interventions and other magical or supernatural forces, are very common elements, and help distinguish fantasy art from other forms. Dragons, wizards, fairies and other fantastical and mythical creatures are common features in fantasy art.
Fantasy art is strongly linked to fantasy fiction. Indeed fantasy art pieces are often intended to represent specific characters or scenes from works of fantasy literature.
Despite the technical skill of many of its practitioners, and despite (or arguably because of) its popularity, Fantasy art is not considered part of the 'canon', or 'fine art', in the sense that it is not hung in galleries, subsidised by governments, studied in art schools etc.
A few works which are 'canonical', particularly surrealist or pre-Raphaelite works, have many characteristics in common with fantasy art. For example The Castle in the Pyrenees by Rene Magritte, and The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, would almost certainly be accepted as fantasy art if they had been created recently by an artist who presented them as such. As with much fantasy art, the latter illustrates a scene from another work. Other modern fantasy artists use the Art Nouveau Movement and other high culture art movements with the contention that fantasy or faerie art should be critically evaluated and noticed by academic institutions.
