There is a fantasy genre in literature and cinematography that we are all familiar with, due to some well-known productions like Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings. Visual arts are also prone to adapt this genre and the clue is in the name: visual.
We can put into this category everything that is not real or hasn’t got any resemblance with reality, be that at an imagistic level or a mental one.
Let’s take for example surreal art, which plays with well known objects depicted realistically but placed in unconventional contexts. It is fantasy, isn’t it? How about exploring myths, legends and folklore? They could be realistically depicted figures in an allegorical context.
On the other side of the coin, any abstract painting could be placed in the fantasy category, especially when exploring some elusive concepts like the birth of the universe, paradise or reverie. The idea is that fantasy is a vast category associated with un-real, surreal and any other prefixes meant to alter the “real”.
We won’t go deeper into this topic nor are we trying to exhaust the subject; we simply want you to admire the paintings we selected as we think they fall under this category. What do you think?
