Fantasy on Art Gallery vs Harry Potter

Science fiction, fantasy art and speculative fiction fans getting together to have fun on our art gallery !
Isaac Asimov, Harry Potter, Dr. Who, Pern, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Battlestar Galactica, Valdemar, Star Wars... the list of our interests and enthusiasms goes on and on.

Come join to my art gallery at our monthly social events to meet fans from all over Chicago and suburbs who have equally wide-ranging interests.

Order off the menu, pay before you leave and have fun!

Our focus is relaxed socializing. We have a monthly social at Dave and Buster's on Clark, a monthly book discussion group in Oak Park and generally organize a movie outing when important new cinematic works (the new Harry Potter, Star Trek, Terminator, etc) are released. We also host a yearly party at WindyCon and lots of us attend Capricon, Duckon and WindyCon. Indeed some really dedicated members do a lot of work for those cons!

At the monthly social we regularly see 60+ attendees who enjoy books, manga, gaming, movies and many other aspects of speculative fiction too numerous to list (e.g. Alexey Antonov )
We also organize trips to Great America, bowling outings, museums, picnics and other fun events, because things are just more entertaining when you are with other fans!
Join our forum and introduce yourself and we look forward to seeing you!

Fantasy art is often considered a “low culture” ? Do you agree?

ABSTRACT
Fantasy ARt is often considered a “low culture” genre, not fit for college classrooms.


Many anti-Fantasy critics have erroneously argued that Fantasy is psychologically dangerous, without literary merit, or fit only for children. Despite the many pro-Fantasy critics who have attempted to refute these arguments, mainstream literary culture does not yet accept Fantasy as a useful genre.

In an attempt to determine how widespread the anti-Fantasy critics’ opinions are, We conducted a survey of college students designed to measure their personalities against their opinions of various types of art, television programs, and movies. The results were, unfortunately, inconclusive due to the students’ tendency to engage in socially acceptable responding.

Fantasy can and should be included in classroom discussions, not only in classes devoted to art surveys, but as a teaching tool. In order to explore the use of Fantasy as a teaching tool, I have applied three types of literary criticism to a popular Fantasy television show. This show is full of themes and metaphors that can be used to illustrate the concepts of literary theories such as archetypal, psychoanalytic, and cultural studies in order to assist students in comprehending and applying the principles of these and other types of criticism.

Shiloh Carroll, MA
Department of English, 2008
Radford University

Art Gallery Fantastic

Who knows what does it mean - Fantastic Art ?

My be artists ? Art-Fantasy Gallery ?
May be writers ?
May be someone else ?

We found that blog to aggregate all mentions and opinions.

Below we will try to answer on questions and to start a long story with the goal:

To understand what does it mean - Fantastic Art!

Thank You!