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A New Book Makes the Case That Fantasy Art Is America’s Least Understood Fine-Art Form—See the Wild Images Here
Taschen presents 500 pages of dragons, wizards, and fantasy maidens.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/taschen-masterpieces-of-fantasy-art-1933523

[EEGator]

[who knows what evil?]

Frazetta, Vallejo, Jones, Whelan...sweet!

[Seruzawa]

Fantasy art requires skill and perspective. It's too difficult. It's easier to daub and slop paint around. Then get some shyster art gallery owner and some crooked art critics to extoll the virtues of crap. Make millions selling shyt like this to suckers:

That POS went for something like $30,000,000.

[Pez149]

Back in the day I loved Heavy Metal magazines.
That was the number 1 magazine to see the best fantasy art.

[The Pack Knight]

Michelangelo had the dome of the Sistine Chapel. Rembrandt had oak panels. The modern masters have the side of a 1974 Ford Econoline.

[Larry Lucido]

I prefer realism.

[lee martell]

Some very impressive work is shown.
Of course in that genre, Frank Frazetta was the king of When Weaponized Chimera met with softly modulated, accurately muscled, light porn formats.

[airborne]

Always been a huge Frazetta fan!

[Beowulf9]

My favorite of Frazetta’s, Egyptian Queen. That column is so well painted.

[Gingersnap]

Fantasy for art and movie soundtracks for classical music.

[Chode]

Dean and Franzetta.

[madison10]

Used to be “I am high on LSD art.”

[Albion Wilde]

"Fantasy art", much as I like Roger Dean, is not art. It's illustration. Art is art. Illustration is craft.

[Captain Compassion]

No one who grew up with Conan could ever forget Frank Frazetta. All other fantasy artists must be judged against him.

[ifinnegan]

What’s to understand?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I love good fantasy paintings! Love them so much I sometimes think I am a Knights-Errand. Must get armor, a nag horse and a squire and go off on ADVENTURES!

https://sc02.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1qlQqOFXXXXaEXFXXq6xXFXXXA.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Don_Quijote_Illustration_by_Gustave_Dore_VII.jpg/440px-Don_Quijote_Illustration_by_Gustave_Dore_VII.jpg

[Lurker]

No Michael Parkes?

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[setter]

A van in my area back in the 70’s was named Hot Box with a buxom woman airbrushed in a sexual pose. Surprised he was not pulled over and arrested.

[freedomson]