Fantasy Art
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Fantasy Art by Artists of Imagination
Artists who specialize in the fantastic never run out of material. But it's their individual styles that make fantasy art so rewarding. Here are a few of the very best.
Josephine Wall
British painter Josephine Wall creates whole worlds in a single painting. Working mainly in acrylic, her fantasy art subjects are fairies, butterflies, mermaids, and other creatures of myth and nature.
Here, in Tigermoth, a tiny fairy catches a ride on a fantastic being that combines the body of a tiger with the wings of a moth. The fairy's peacock-inspired gossamer-thin wings are transparent against the moon, as compared to the tiger's. This painting is fairly characteristic of her work.
H. R. Giger
H. R. Giger is perhaps best known as the visual genius behind the look of the movie Alien and its sequel, Aliens.
His fantasy art always features some unnatural combination of human and machine, organic and inorganic, melding and flowing together in inextricable ways. His is the art of the horror film, the nightmare.
His ideal woman would be the Borg Queen.
Michael Parkes
Michael Parkes' art evokes Maxwell Parrish in its romanticism and fantasy art deco flair. His figures are realistic, yet idealized. Women wear sweeping draperies, fantasy figures such as gnomes and angels abound, and there appears to be a story behind every painting.
What, for instance, is going on in "The Last Peony"? What strange little architectural detail are the lovers standing on? Whose leopard is observing them? And what is the point of those tiny little wings?
It appears to be illustrating a story, but what?
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