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Now that I no longer do regular features on Fractal art I thought I would like to showcase the various genres this group hosts.  Beginning with

Fantasy, SCi-Fi, Surreal

 I have tried, for this first article, to stick with one Genre - Fantasy - but there will always be a spill over from one to the other.



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*Fantasy art concerns mythological, magical, and supernatural themes. 




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*The history of fantasy art can be traced back to antiquity when artists treated mythological characters in their stories, poems, and images.



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*The Italian Renaissance, artists concerned with Greek and Roman mythological characters were actually creating fantasy art.



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*As a genre, fantasy art does not receive formal recognition and legitimacy like other art movements.



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*To understand fantasy art, you can picture elves, demons, wizards, centaurs, dwarves, goblins, and fairies.



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*Fantasy art also extends to other characters, from superheroes to space aliens and from saints to animals with human features.

* Source "arthistory.net/fantasy-art/"

See the masters:

Josephine Wall           www.josephinewall.co.uk/art_ga…

Jean Baptiste Monge   www.jbmonge.com/

Brian Froud               www.worldoffroud.com/about/art…

Cicely Mary Barker     www.flowerfairies.com/

Phillip Straub            philipstraub.deviantart.com/ga…

Ailah                       ailah.deviantart.com/

to name a few..................

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