The Artistical Legacy between Fantastic Realism and Early Renaissance

The Artistical Legacy between Fantastic Realism and Early Renaissance.

Here on this issue, we will analyze the most struggled issue on art. How strong is the connection between Early Renaissance artists of the 1400's / 1500's and the Fantastic Realist artists of the present day? ...Well, this is most deepest issue and exceeds from the similarity of the palettes of the involved paintings of this issue. There is so much artists lived on Early Renaisssance which they surprisingly used strong visions exceeds from their era..

The most famous artist from this era is: Hieronymus Bosch aka: Jheronimus Bosch or originally as: Jheronimus van Aken. He depicts in his artworks as several triptychs. Among of his most famous artworks he depicts paradises which contains Adam and Eve and many wondrous metamorhosed creatures within. Also he depicts nude figures and tremendous metamorphosed fruits and birds around. Mostly used hell with depictions of various type of fantastic punishments. ("The Garden of Earthly Delights" one example) These paintings (especially the Hell panel) are painted with fantasies and dreams. 

In his paintings, and more powerfully in works such as his Temptation of St. Anthony, Bosch draws his fantastic dreams and artistic visions can be explained as fantastic art as unusual for the time. Bosch is also one of the most revolutionary draftsmen in the history of art, producing some of the first autonomous sketches in Northern Europe.

The next artist which can be seen as fantastic is: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or simply: Michelangelo. He mostly known as Sculptor. His most famaus and rare painting artwork is: "The ceilings of the Sistine Chapel". Michelangelo painted the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel; the work took approximately four years to complete. (1508–1512) This artwork mostly comes from the descriptions of  the Holy Bible.

In this marvelous painting masterpiece, we can easily see the figures are flying throughout the sky. In the bottom, several demons and devils are trying to catch down the sinners which they are desperately tries to survive from the punishments of hell.

Atop of this painting, we see the God which he flying throughout the air, and gives life and power to Adam with a single finger touch. All these Visions and Fantastic dreams are comes from the roots of his point of view of Holy Bible. And this marvelous artwork contains numerous suprisingly fantastic creations.

The other famous artist who use his artistic dreams and fantasies in his arts is: Peter Paul Rubens. The flemish artist lived in the era of Baroque period in the late 1500's.

Especially in his famous artwork The Fall of Icarus (1636), we can see two winged flying Ikarus, which they fall throughout the skies. His depictions of this artwork strongly comes from his artistic visions.

When we jumped the present era, we can easily encounter the Surrealism movement, the Fantastic Realism movements and Visionary Art movements which their art and their artists strongly use their artistical dreams and artistical fantasies for their highly aesthetical artworks. We will try to descript some of their artworks.

Boris Vallejo works almost exclusively in the fantastic art movement. His hyper-representational paintings have graced the covers of dozens of science fiction paperbacks and are featured in a series of best-selling calendars.

Subjects of his paintings are typically sword and sorcery, gods, monsters, and well-muscled warriors and female barbarians engaged in battles or winged demi-angels flying throughout the skies with a several metamorphosed creatures.

The most famous artist of the original Surrealist movement is: Salvador Dalí. (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) Dalí is best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist artworks. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. Especially his most strong allegoric paintings is for the destructions that  caused by the 2nd World War.

He strongly depicts the Metamorhose of the different kind of objects, time-shifts, formal transformations and conceptual allegories in his marvelous masterpieces. The brush-technique on the surfaces he used is actually comes from the techniques of the Quattrocento era masters. 

Ernst Füchs is one of the most important present day artist from the Fantastic-Realism movement. He actually leads the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism movement. His paintings holds stunning fantastic visions, remarkably strong fantasies. In his artworks like "Adam Mysticus" he depicts Adam, Eve and the Prime-Snake which is the prime-devil himself, as appears with several allegorical-metamorphosed creatures and immense designs which comes from his strongly artistical visions.

Also as Salvador Dalí, the brush-technique on the surfaces that Ernst Füchs used is actually comes from the techniques of the Quattrocento era masters. 

Today's most famous Fantastic Visionary artist is H.R.Giger or originally: Hans Rudolf (Ruedi) Giger. And his visionary dreams and fantastic images he used on the surfaces mostly can seen on endless struggle of sins with a pleasure. They struggle the fantastic punishments near beings with devils and demons. Sometimes lustful figures with mutagenic manifestations smoothly appears from their bodies.

His depictions can be seen with several metamorhosed living creations, organic designs which also merged with mechanical parts, several humanoid figures merged with halfly biological / halfly mechanical parts with erotism. Leaden atmoshperes within barren surrealistic planets. His designs still influenced mostly in several famous Hollywood movies in science-fiction genre.

Peter Gric is an Austrian Fantastic Realist and Visionary artist. And his paintings mostly contains his visionary dreams, and artistical fantasies in his art. The technique he use on the surfaces actually detailed with his strongly colourful palette.

He actually depicts metamorphosed creations, shape-shifted figures which their internal organs manifested with biomechanical parts, conceptual allegories with mostly intense landscapes.

  As far as we try to compare here, the connections shows itself in countless ways...
I try to unearthed some of them. But surely there are more connections as far as I try to compare a little.
Different eras naturally will differ each eras. Which of those eras contains full of different views. But in also artistically point of view, there are roots which can not be excluded especially in art for centuries.

(by: Alex Can Emed in 25 August 2012)