Visionary Art

Twilight Warrior by Elvira Baranova

 I subscribe to the newsletter of the Visionary Artists. Their images makes me gasp in admiration every time I view them. I love!!! their images and also the refinement in painting technique. Above there is only one sample image by Russian visionary artist Elvira Baranova; she is one among other exceptional artists in this vein of painting. I just feel it deserves to be shared with all of you.
The website to their online gallery is below a short explanation taken from Wikipedia.com on the difference between visionary art, surrealist art, and fantastic realist art that can be of help to some of my reader.

"The American Visionary Art Museum defines Visionary art as "....art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself." In short, Visionary art begins by listening to the inner voices and inner perception of the soul. It goes on to say that visionary art is a product of an inner process, and may not even be thought of as art by its creator...."


"Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality." Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.<sup>.."

 "</sup>The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is a group of artists founded in Vienna in 1946. It includes Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter, Anton Lehmden and Fritz Janschka, all students of Professor Albert Paris Gütersloh at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. It was Gütersloh's emphasis on the techniques of the Old Masters that gave the fantastic realist painters a grounding in realism (expressed with a clarity and detail some have compared to early Flemish painting) combined with religious and esoteric symbolism..."
 
So here is the link. Enjoy it!!
http://visionaryartgallery.weebly.com/