Leslie Tonkonow 535 West 22nd Street, Chelsea Through March 23 You could easily imagine Amy Cutler's amusing, fanciful paintings and drawings as illustrations for a children's book of new fairy tales.

You could easily imagine Ms. Cutler's amusing, fanciful paintings and drawings as illustrations for a children's book of new fairy tales.

The pictures are pure propaganda and sometimes almost as fanciful as the "Shahnama" paintings: military leaders striking valiant poses, enemies cut (or in this case blown) to bits.

All around him were fanciful paintings of tropical gardens, undersea life, butterflies, waterfalls, volcanic explosions, shipwrecks and outer space.

All together, there are 30 fanciful, exuberant paintings of fish, birds and flowers.

One fanciful painting, for instance, portrays Auster juggling the letters of the keyboard.

This fanciful painting combines the rather savage images of the Indians and the landscape with the orderly image of European architecture.

His fanciful paintings often included harlequins and clocks.

At first glance, the brightly colored, fanciful paintings are reminiscent of Paul Klee, whose work Mr. Odets collected, but many have themes of evil and pain.

At the Saraf haveli, where two barefoot girls in grimy party dresses scampered after each other, the grubby walls of the interior courtyards had fanciful paintings of a motor car and a flying machine.