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People have a tendency for simplifications, and it's fully understandable. The Art which I create is often mentioned as "fantasy" or "surrealism", something I hardly agree with myself. I see such a statement as a superficialization, though - it should be confessed - that I've often used the popularity of these isms to bring forth my own Art.
Fantasy and particularly surrealism are though isms, mass movements, where art is created using well established and well used patterns and political or intellectual ideas. The goal for the surrealist movement is to shake the consciousness into see the "real" reality; the metaphysical, the makers of Plato's cave-wall shadows.
The fantasy art movement wants to create the fantastic, the stylised; use the imagination. I'ts not easy to tell which fantasy artist painted which fantasy dragon. I have a hard time accepting the eventual qualities of the flimsiness and posing in fantasy art and I don't have much faith in the surrealistic attempts to use intellectual means in order to understand the unspeakable. But deep down I just don't care, I think it's hard to comprehend where these people gather energy to their futilities from.
What I do is that I see images, visions, and these I paint. These paintings don't obey any ism, they are me and the world which I move through. My religion and my way of life. To confess to a style or an ism is the insignia of the less talented, the ones without any actual calling of their own.
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