In fact, it is the visionary artists that produce the artwork for the covers of science fiction and fantasy books. From Hieronymus Bosch's bizarre paintings in the 15 th century to Salvador Dali to today's digital artists, visionary art is a fascinating and growing painting style. At the other end of the spectrum is underground art. Underground art often seems to be a counter-cultural backlash against mainstream art and mainstream culture. If the mainstream religion is Christianity, for example, then underground religious art is distinctly anti-Christian.
Portraiture is grotesque and distorted as a backlash against mainstream portraiture.
Dark art depicts human emotional depths and fears in graphic detail from bleeding amputees to faces with expressions of terror. These works show the dark side of our existence. The dark emotions of fear and anger can be graphically shown as monsters threatening to devour us. Dark art is also a part of the Gothic sub-culture along with gothic music and fashion. Visionary and underground artists use the standard mainstream media of painting, drawing and sculpture but some also are tattoo artists that have expanded their repertoire to include painting and drawing.