H. R. Giger is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, designer, interior architect and is known for his terrifying creations of life forms and otherworldly environments in the classic movie ALIEN.

Biography

H. R. Giger is recognized as one of the world’s foremost artists of Fantastic Realism. Born in 1940 to a chemist’s family in Chur, Switzerland, he moved in 1962 to Zurich, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts. By 1964 he was producing his first artworks, mostly ink drawings and oil paintings, resulting in his first solo exhibition in 1966, followed by the publication and world-wide distribution of his first poster edition in 1969. Shortly after, he discovered the airbrush and, along with it, his own unique freehand painting style, leading to the creation of many of his most well known works, the surrealistic Biomechanical dreamscapes, which formed the cornerstone of his fame. To date, 20 books have been published about Giger’s art.

More information on H. R.’s bio here –> H. R. Giger Bio

Picture featured –> H. R. Giger Bio

Giger’s Alien

H.R.Giger achieved international fame with his work on Ridley Scott’s Alien. In 1980, he received the Academy Award for “Best Achievement for Visual Effects” for his designs of the film’s title creature and its otherworldly environment.

See this link for more Alien achievements –> Giger’s Alien

Salvador Dali was an eccentric best known for his engaging, but incrediablity unothodoxed and surrealist work. His flair for the dramatic and nonconformist attitude drew a wide range of people to purchase his work. His most famous work The Persistence of Memory (1931) introduced the surrealistic imagery of soft melting clocks/watches in a strange landscape.

Wikipedia has an indepth information and bio of the unconventional man — Salvador Dali (Wikipedia)

No. Fantasy Art has been with the human race for thousands of years. Mankind has always been made of dreamers. If we didn’t have dreamers then we wouldn’t have the luxuries and technologies that we now enjoy.

The discovery of prehistoric cave paintings depicted mythical creatures, gods and imaginary fantasy beasts. Is it a possibility that what was depicted on the stone walls, existed or was it just imagination? Only the prehistoric man knows.

(Picture featured — Pech Merle Prehistory Center)

In my research if there were anyone to be considered the father of fantasy art it would have to be Hieronymous Bosch (c. 1450 - 1516). A lavish Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His works depicted sin, human degradation and immorality. What you would see in his paintings was unreal landscapes, burning buildings, wicked human figures, demons and exotic, phantasmagorical objects. Bosch’s painting techniques were rendered with a delicate precision of that time period.

I find Bosch’s paintings for that time, advanced, vibrant and disturbing. The 15th century ushered in the modern era, a confluence of changing languages, ideology, and technology. The 15th century was the precursor to the Reformation of the 16th century. This was a time when many changes occured as the medieval period was coming to an end.

I believe that Bosch witnessed a great many things throughout his life that caused his distorted view of the world. Also, the astringent and harsh machinations of churches, religions and governments played a part in this view. Bosch’s overall sense of art would later be cultivated and further refined several hundred years later by artists such as Salvador Dali and H. R. Giger.

Bosch’s most famous work is the disconcerted Garden of Earthly Delights.

A large triptych, it’s original function remains a mystery.

Hello! I’m Sherrie Hibbs (S. P. Hibbs) and have recently joined 451 Press. Thank you for allowing me to be apart of your team. This week I will be doing posts on fantasy art, artists and featuring an amateur artist. Now, to the feature blog.

Fantasy art is a genre of art that depicts magical or other supernatural themes, ideas, creatures, or 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. Such works created by amateur artists is fanart.

There is a large subculture based around the creation of amateur fantasy art. This is largely centered around websites such as Elfwood. Such sites are noticeably less male-dominated than some other pursuits related to the fantasy genre.
Fantasy art should not be confused with the fantastic art genre, which can contain fantastical elements that are not always considered “fantasy” per se.

Fantasy Art and High Culture

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, subsidized by governments, studied in art schools etc.

A few works that are ‘canonical’, particularly surrealism 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 an artist who presented them as such had created them recently. 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. Finucane defines his art stylistics as “Neo-Medieval”, rather than using the escapist terminology of “fantasy art” to define his work. Historical standards of what is high art or what is not high art was a common problem for now famous artists like the Glasgow School, who were also unfairly defined as inferior artists in their time.

Nonetheless these works are accorded the status of fine art, and not considered to be connected to fantasy art. The situation could arguably be compared to the way in which certain critically-esteemed works may be treated as if they had no connection to non-’literary’ genres, for example Nineteen Eighty-four and science fiction.

Click HERE to check out the complete entry from Wikipedia with some examples of fantasy art.

Here’s a great video from the YouTube community showing over 500 years of female portraits in western art.

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Art history is the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, e.g., genre, design, format, or look.[1] Art history is, more generally, the research of artists, along with their cultural and social contributions.[2]

Art history (also called history of art) is a term which encompasses several different methods of studying the visual arts; in its most common usage it refers to the study of works of art and architecture. The definition is, however, wide-ranging, and some aspects of the discipline overlap with art criticism and art theory. Ernst Gombrich observed that “the field of art history [is] much like Caesar’s Gaul, divided into three parts inhabited by three different, though not necessarily hostile tribes: the connoisseurs, the critics and the academic art historians”.[3] Works of criticism or of theory have frequently been the pivots around which the understanding of art history has turned.

Art history as a discipline is distinguished from art criticism, which is concerned with placing a relative artistic “value” on individual works with respect to others of generally comparable style, or giving sanction to an entire style or movement; and art theory, which is concerned with the fundamental nature of art and is related more to aesthetics and determination of the essence of beauty and artistic appeal. Art history is technically not these things. The art historian uses the historical method to answers the questions, “How did the artist come to create his or her work?” “Who were his or her patrons? His or her teachers? His or her disciples?” “What historical forces shaped the artist’s oeuvre, and how did he or she and his or her creation in turn affect the course of events, artistic, political and social?”

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Title: Portrait of Woman in Hat(Jeanne Hebuterne in Large Hat), 1917
Artist: Amedeo Modigliani
Size: 20X24 inch canvas

This painting is only $89 at overstock Art. It’s a great reproduction and definitely a good buy. Check it out before it’s too late.

20″ X 24″ Oil Painting On Canvas

Hand painted oil reproduction of a famous Modigliani painting, Portrait of Woman in Hat(Jeanne Hebuterne in Large Hat). The original masterpiece was created in 1917. Today it has been carefully recreated detail-by-detail, color-by-color to near perfection. Why settle for a print when you can add sophistication to your rooms with a beautiful fine gallery reproduction oil painting?

One of the major artists of his generation, Amedeo Modigliani is most popularly known for portraits and figure studies. The bohemian painter’s works form a bridge between the generation of Toulouse-Lautrec and the Art Deco painters of the 1920s. The classically simple, flat forms, elongated proportions and delicate stylization combine influences from African sculpture to Botticelli style. Why not grace your home with this reproduced masterpiece? It is sure to bring many admirers!

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One of the better internet television stations for artists out there is LionEye TV out of Houston, TX. There are plenty of unique shows, information and forums located on the site. The most popular areas are: fashion, poetry, art, urban nightlife, indie films and action. From my understanding, it is actually the first internet based television network of it’s kind. Definitely check the place out. It’s definitely a great place for the art scene.

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Here’s an interesting video I came across on About.com

Purchase Oil Painting for Good Reasons (Ezine Ready)

Author: vijay

When you are planning to buy oil paintings for your home it is extremely significant to decide the reason for buying the painting. Usually reason for buying oil painting falls in to three categories: decoration, collection or investment. This article follows some good tips for you to decide what kind would be best suitable for you.

Commonly people are interested in buying oil painting as a picturesque that some thing nice to upload on the wall, some thing that gives you aesthetic and pretty emotional pleasure and might relate on some topic about them selves. It is not purchased as a reason for investment and does not actually require to be original, even the oil painting reproduction would be amazing in that room and be something that owners really loves it.

Oil painting reproductions as well have their worth practically well. To grab attractive works try going around any usual art galleries, note down the artists name and name of oil paintings that you like and then you just need to contact a reproduction artist to copy the same for you. If you are collecting then you would really require deciding on some basic subjects for your collection, what types of art and what type of artists are you going to build your set around. Looking online is again a good idea, as there are now many galleries that are displaying original art from all sorts of artists at every price level. The talent remains in buying art that you really like and enjoys, and at the same time selects pieces, which go together in some way to shape a collection, which feels like it belongs together.

If you are buying oil painting for investment, then buying art for purpose of making money is an unsafe thing to try and top left to experts. It has to be said that anyone who thinks they could spend in contemporary art and then sell it on quickly at a profit is likely to be disappointed. It is always best to gather art that you actually like and maybe, if you are lucky, a long while in the future some of it may be really worth something. If not, at least you had a awesome pleasure.

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