Kenneth Clark & A Stick in the Mud...

I know this video has nothing to do with the Fantasy Art but nevertheless it has everything to do with Art.
And we are chatting here about art.

Kenneth Clark was an extraordinary man. With his passion for art, humans and his believe in the Goodness of homo sapience.

His TV program 'Civilisation: A Personal View' about art and in general the human civilisation was a very unusual one,a masterpiece.
"It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs."

I just created a New Universe

This is an image of the Universe, the one where Mintaka and Betelgeuse supposed to go.
I used my abstract painting - "Just at the right side"and manipulated with it.
(All my abstract paintings, fantasy art, surreal paintings and digital images will be soon to see on my new website.)
I like it very much actually, what about you?

My FantasyArt images

Some Fantasy Art images, photos and paintings I made.

1. Weird World - based on a picture of the sky I took a year ago at the Beacon Hill. I manipulated the photo, I turned it around.
   
2. Fantasy - The green part of this image is a photo - I took it in Williton, it is a meadow/ a field a few minutes walk from our house here. The dark part I painted in the Adobe Photoshop.
   
3. Fantasy Evening in Cologne - I love Cologne, I think it is a wonderful city, great museums, very interesting collection of art, nice city for a long walk, the old part is small but cosy. And the Cathedral is just amazing. But about the photo - ordinary photo with some extra visual effects - the planets. When we stood at the other side of the river and were taking the photos of the evening, the bridge and the Dom I just thought/ had a vision "it will be wonderful if you could see beautiful big planets in the sky in that spring time...in Cologne (don't do any association with the song Spring Time for Hitler from the Producers (nota bene I love this movie)). Made in Photoshop too.
4. Panta Rhei - my oil on canvas painting. The inspiration for this painting was Callas, Maria Callas. I listened to her singing the most beautiful arias from the less popular operas and just painted. By the way Panta Rhei means " everything is in a state of flux". This is a famous aphorism and it comes from Simplicius but it used to used to characterize Heraclitus, one of the greatest Greek philosophers. Phanta Rhei: the ocean, the bird, and the doors to our desires and our dreams and our subconscious.
   
5. Wormhole - this is pure digital image. I was experimented with Photo Shop and discovered per accident lots of possibilities presented inside the Adobe Photoshop. I drew some stuff and than just used some tools I discovered. It is fun!

More digital images you can find at my facebook page:
http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=20387&id=608063290

I would love to here your comments what do you think about my surreal/ digital/ fantasy art paintings/ work.

Some of the images are available as wallpapers. Here is the link to that page:
http://fantasydragonart.com/wallpaper_download.html

A new painitng of Betelgeuse

My dragons are growing. They just got out of their eggs.
Here is Betelgeuse. He is wondering about the world around him.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

This is amazing. A surreal art a'la Dada.

Tomasz Sętowski - update

Tomasz Setwoski, Sunken World of Dreams, oil on canvas.

A quick update about Tomasz Sętowski.
If you are visiting Gdansk (the beautiful and famous city in North Poland) you should absolutely visit the Maritime Museum. The museum owns some very wonderful paintings of Setowski.

If you are by chance in Switzerland don’t forget to visit the Museum of Fantasy Art – actually the Centre d'Art Fantastique du château de Gruyères in Gruyères. This museum owns few paintings of Setowski, too. The castle Gruyères is one of the most prestigious in Switzerland and the medieval town is worth to visit too.

“The tour of the castle offers a walk through eight centuries of architecture, history and culture"

William Blake and his Great Red Dragons

This is inexplicable but nevertheless I am fascinated by the poetry and art of William Blake.

William Blake, the visionary, even hallucinatory English painter and poet, who lived at the dawn of the technological era (1757-1827). I think he was a better poet than a painter, but this opinion is in the eye of the beholder. Unlike most artists of his era he did not draw from life, claiming that the visions that appeared before him were clearer and more vivid than his perception of external reality. He was a happy lunatic, an fantastic artist or maybe a realistic one? Though it is hard to classify Blake’s body of work in one genre, he heavily influenced the Romantic poets with recurring themes of good and evil, heaven and hell, knowledge and innocence, and external reality versus inner. Going against common conventions of the time, Blake believed in sexual and racial equality and justice for all, rejected the Old Testament’s teachings in favour of the New, and abhorred oppression in all its forms. He focused his creative efforts beyond the five senses, for,

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.—from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Around 1805-1810, Blake was commissioned to create over a hundred paintings illustrating books from the Bible. Among these was a four-painting cycle of the Great Red Dragon (Satan) from the Book of Revelations in the Bible. The dragon is described as having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth.

Here are the paintings from the cycle of the Great Red Dragon: