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Many artists today are influenced by fantasy, surrealism, and a great imagination. Here are some interesting artists and information about their work. We intend to add to this information continually, including fantastical artists and their artwork from all over the world. |
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Francesco
Clemente invents what
he calls "unknown ideograms, ideograms in costumes," in which "logic and chance as one force" become effective. |
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The most interesting thing about Robert
Colescott is that he paints beautifully. Everything else that is interesting
about him is interesting in relation to that beautifulness. |
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West Coast Artist Roy
De Forest has long worked with the theme of rambling
visual storytelling about journeys to fantastic places where
inhabitants and travelers include adept, grinning canines with
glowing, bas-relief eyes. |
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Gronk:
Influenced by surrealism and German expressionism, Gronk's paintings
reflect Chicano traditions while wryly commenting on themes of ethnic
identity, high and pop culture, romantic love, and mortality. |
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Tim Hawkinson: Artist renowned for creating complex sculptural systems
through surprisingly simple means. |
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Yayoi
Kusama: One of the most influential and widely-collected
artists of the 1960s and quite possibly Japan's premiere artist of
the modern era. |
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A pioneer in painting, Elizabeth
Murray's distinctively
shaped canvases break with the art-historical tradition of illusionist
space in two-dimensions. |
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Manuel
Ocampo's imagery manages to be simultaneously ugly
and beautiful, as though to echo an internal culture clash. |
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"Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it." -- |
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Kiki
Smith: One of the most influential artists of her generation,
Kiki Smith makes sculpture of and about the body in materials as diverse
as bronze, paper, and wax. |
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