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Fantasy art is a genre of art that depicts magical or other supernatural themes, ideas, creatures or settings. While there is some overlap with science fiction, horror and other speculative fiction art, there are unique elements not generally found in other forms of speculative fiction art. Depictions of ancient myths and legends, as well as depictions of modern day fantasy in the form of divine interventions and other magical or supernatural forces, are very common elements, and help distinguish fantasy art from other forms. Dragons, wizards, fairies and other fantastical and mythical creatures are common features in fantasy art.

Fantastic Art is an art genre. The parameters of fantastic art have been fairly rigorously defined in the scholarship on the subject ever since the time of Jules Verne and HG Wells. There was a movement of sci-fi/fantasy artists prior to and during the Great Depression, which were mainly cover art and comic book illustrators. The best anthology about them all is "Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art" by Vincent Di Fate (himself a prolific SF/space artist), with foreword by Ray Bradbury.

Fantastic Art has traditionally been largely confined to painting and illustration, but since the 1970s has increasingly been found also in photography. Fantastic art explores fantasy, space fantasy (a sub-genre of sci-fi that incorporates subjects of alien mythology and/or alien religion), imagination, the dream state, the grotesque, visions and the uncanny, as well as the so-called Goth art. Being an inheritant genre of Victorian Symbolism, the modern Fantastic 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 (nature of soul and spirit).

Fantasy has been an 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.

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