thumb|220px|Paintings by [[Alex Grey in The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors]]

Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences.

History

The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, first established in 1946, is considered to be an important technical and philosophical catalyst in its strong influence upon contemporary visionary art. Its artists included Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Arik Brauer, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden among others. Several artists who would later work in visionary art trained under Fuchs, including Mati Klarwein, Robert Venosa, and De Es Schwertberger.

Definition

thumb|Visionary artist [[Laurence Caruana with visionary art paintings.]]

Visionary art often carries themes of spiritual, mystical or inner awareness.