MetaFilter posts tagged with fantasy and illustration

The Other Side

Artw — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:05:33 -0800

"These are like cool Magic Cards!" - the sometimes disturbing (and sometimes NSFW) art of Alfred Kubin.

Fantastic art by John Jude Palencar

mediareport — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:04:24 -0800

Just some cool dark fantasy art by John Jude Palencar, including covers for Lovecraft, de Lint, Tolkien and other popular books.

Preliminary sketches of Tony Blair invariably had the PM knocking off the head of a robot.

infinitewindow — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:22:49 -0800

When the House of Commons required a portrait of outgoing PM Tony Blair, to whom did they turn? Phil Hale. Philip Oliver Hale got his start very young indeed, co-founding with Rick Berry the Newbury Studio in 1980 at age 16. He took over the paintbrush from Michael Whelan for Volume II of Stephen King's fantasy saga The Dark Tower in 1 9 8 7. (He later revisited The Drawing of the Three with new illustrations for the second edition in 1998.) The twenty-first century has seen Hale's standing improve among critics. In 2001, he published GOAD (sadly now out of print). In 2003, he finished a portrait of composer Thomas Adès for the National Portrait Gallery. He had a 2005 show in London's Jerwood Space, and 2007 brought him the a commission for new covers for Penguin Classics UK's line of Joseph Conrad collections. He is represented by Allen Spiegel Fine Arts in the US.

JMW Turner - Broadening the landscape

kliuless — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:11:30 -0800

If you like 'fantasy' art (as opposed to comics :) and you're in DC I'd highly recommend checking out the JMW Turner exhibit at the NGA! I know very little (next to nothing) about art history but to me he's like the godfather of fantasy/SF art (if not impressionism); pre-Crystal Palace.¹

Fantastic in Art & Fiction - images of the grotesque, marvelous and macabre

madamjujujive — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 07:16:35 -0800

The Fantastic in Art & Fiction - Cornell University's bank of nearly 300 images of the fantastic, the grotesque, the macabre, the marvelous and more "from works spanning a period from medieval manuscripts and printed incunabulae, to the early twentieth century."