Fantasy Art

Fantasy art is such kind of art which is based on imagination, not reality. Fantasy art is a universal language of images; it displays invisible and mysterious forces and things. This kind of art originates from African magic, Greek mythology, Chinese folklore and other cultural sources.
It is proved that fantasy art is a product which appeared when observation of real world combines with power of imagination. Fantasy paintings can be describes as unreal, fantastic, wild, dreamy, incomprehensible. The ideal example of fantasy paintings are works of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. Nothing can be compared with his masterpiece – triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. This painting portrays nude people before the Fall and after the Fall of Adam and Eve. This painting charms people by its deep meaning which is depicted in every object of the work.
In 18th century the art of photography was introduces and it influenced a lot the world of painting. Before the photography, since the Roman times realistic tendencies were prevailing in the sphere of paintings. But with the introduction of photography it became more convenient to depict reality and people by meant of cameras. As for the sphere of painting, this introduction allowed the developing of other art styles like expressionism, cubism, surrealism. Representatives of these styles left principles of realism and let their fantasy to be expressed. Painters began to express their thoughts, feelings and emotions by means of color, play of light and shadow, by means of abstractive images which in spite of their unreality make people understand the meaning of the painting. In such paintings unconscious prevail conscious.