Visionary art
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Illustration: Drawing for the interior view of the Théatre de Besançon (1784) by Claude Nicolas Ledoux
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Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences. A synonym of sorts is fantastic art or art in the tradition of the fantastique.
A Manifesto of Visionary Art (2001) is a text which traces the antecedents of visionary art to the work of Bosch, Schongauer, Grünewald, Altdörfer, Hans Baldung, Grien, Bruegel, Signorelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Arcimboldo, Master of theTarot de Marseille, Master of Rosarium Philosophorum, Master of the Splendor Solis series, Goya, John Martin, Blake, C.D Friedrich, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Gustave Moreau, Gustave Doré, Redon, Delville, Khnopff, Klinger, Klimt and Dali.
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History
The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, first established in 1946, is considered to be an important technical and philosophical catalyst in its strong influence upon contemporary visionary art. Its artists included Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Arik Brauer, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden among others. Several artists who would later work in visionary art trained under Fuchs, including Mati Klarwein, Robert Venosa and De Es Schwertberger.
Definition
Visionary art often carries themes of spiritual, mystical or inner awareness. Despite this broad definition, there does seem to be emerging some definition to what constitutes the contemporary visionary art 'scene' and which artists can be considered especially influential. Symbolism, Cubism, Surrealism and Psychedelic art are also direct precursors to contemporary visionary art. Notable visionary artists count Hilma af Klint, Hieronymous Bosch, William Blake, Morris Graves (of the Pacific Northwest School of Visionary Art), Emil Bisttram, and Gustave Moreau amongst their antecedents.
Schools and organizations
The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, which includes Ernst Fuchs and Arik Brauer, is also a strong influence on visionary culture. It may also be considered the European version, with the names being interchangeable.
The Society for the Art of Imagination, founded by Brigid Marlin serves as an important portal for visionary art events. More recently, a new wave of visionary artists collaborate to function as modern cooperatives involved in self-publishing and promotion of visionary artists through the internet and via festivals such as Burning Man.
List of works
- Come unto These Yellow Sands (1842) by Richard Dadd
- The Nightmare (1781) by Henry Fuseli
See also
- Burning Man
- Conceptual art
- Fantastic art
- Horror vacui
- Outsider art
- Psychedelic art
- Surrealism
- The Symbolist and Decadent art movement
- Vision
- Visionary
- Visionary architecture
- Visionary environment
