The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke is a painting by English artist Richard Dadd. It was begun in 1855 and worked on until 1864. Dadd painted it while incarcerated in the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum of
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The painting in the Tate Britain
Horror vacui (art)
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In visual art, horror vacui, or kenophobia, is a phenomenon in which the entire surface of a space or an artwork is filled with detail and content, leaving as little perceived emptiness as possible. I
The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
…Titania, and a trumpet-playing crane fly. Critic Adam Roberts describes it as "a bustling composition, obsessively worked in immense, miniature detail, horror vacui and almost fractal in the way it draws the eye in." At the top right a figure representing Dadd's murdered father, a pharmacist, wields a mortar and…
The art of Swiss outsider artist Adolf Wölfli contains spaces densely filled with ornamentation, writing and musical notation.
The Fall of Babylon, engraving by Jean Duvet from the Apocalypse series, circa 1555, plate size: 11+7⁄8 in × 8+3⁄8 in (300 mm × 210 mm)
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