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- Alexandrs Limanovics
Alexandrs
Limanovics
Singularity of Soul
The name of the fantasy genre comes from the English word fantasy – “fantasy”. The fantasy genre in art is rooted in mythology, folklore and religious stories. At all times, taking reality as a basis, artists add to it bizarre images and forms, brought to life by their indomitable imagination.
Fantasy art is extremely attractive and multifaceted, but most serious authors writing about the history of art bypass this genre, still considering it amateurish and too vague, “low” genre.
Fantasy in the visual arts as a separate genre is a relatively young concept. However, its foundations were laid in the distant past. Artists whose work can be attributed to the fantasy genre drew inspiration from Greek and Christian mythology, the folklore of the countries of the East, African myths and magical superstitions.
Gods and demons, dragons and ghosts, spirits and destructive forces of nature – a person from ancient times wanted to visualize these entities and place them in the familiar world. Evidence of this is the numerous objects created by our ancestors. Outlandish figurines, vases with paintings that are incredible in terms of plots are kept in museums around the world. Fantastic animals can be found among the ancient Greeks and Romans.