Fantasy Art Gifts

The parameters of popular fantasy art and gifts have been fairly rigorously defined in the scholarship on the subject ever since the 19th century.  There was a movement of science fiction and fantasy artists prior to and during the Great Depression, which were mainly cover art and comic book illustrators. One anthology about them is Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art by Vincent Di Fate (himself a prolific SF and space artist), with foreword by Ray Bradbury.

Fantasy art has traditionally been largely confined to painting and illustration, but since the 1970s has increasingly been found also in photography. Fantasy art explores fantasy, “space fantasy” (a sub-genre which incorporates subjects of alien mythology and/or alien religion), imagination, the dream state, the grotesque, visions and the unique uncanny, as well as so-called “Goth” art. Being an inherent genre of Victorian Symbolism, modern fantasy art often shares its choice of themes such as mythology, occultism and mysticism, or lore and folklore, and generally seeks to depict the inner life (gifts of soul and spirit).

Fantasy Gifts and art has been a popular integral part of art since its beginnings, but has been particularly important in mannerism, magic realist painting, romantic art, symbolism, surrealism and lowbrow. In French, the genre is called le fantastique, in English it is sometimes referred to as visionary art, grotesque art or mannerist art. It has had a deep and circular interaction with fantasy literature. Visit Fantasy Gifts Fantasy Gift Resources: Unique Shop for Art and Gifts of Fantasy.

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