2007-11-26 13:18:21 · 5 answers · asked by hockey123 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Magical realism is the Latin American answer to the literature of the mid XX. It is defined as the ornamental preoccupation and the interest to show unreal or strange things as something from the everyday life. It is not a magical literary expression.
2007-11-26 13:30:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term magic realism is a style of painting (also present in literature) coined by art critic 1925 by art critic Franz Roe in which ordinary subject matter is depicted with extreme realism. According to Roh, the Magic Realist artist faithfully portrays the exterior of an object, and in doing so the spirit, or magic, of the object reveals itself.
The magic realists used very small details even in large landscapes.
In magical realism we find the transformation of the common and the everyday into the awesome and the unreal. It is an art of surprises.
The style was popular in Europe and the United States from the 1920’s to the 1940’s. It is often thought of as a combination of Realism and Surrealism (where images are supposedly produced by chance or absence of control on one's thought). These paintings portraying objects realistically but with strange perspectives, and unusual arrangements.
For list of artists associated with Magic Realism go to Visual Arts at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism
2007-11-26 16:28:28 · answer #2 · answered by angela l 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In painting it is the style that is immediately recognizable by its atmosphere. Though the painting itself shows nothing wrong and looks perfectly realistic there usually is something out of place or at least has a 'magical' atmosphere or sense of foreboding to it.
Do not confuse it with surrealism (like Dali) where you actually can see what it 'wrong' with the picture. In magical realism everything in the painting is possible ... just not likely.
Perfect example is the dutch painter Carel Willink.
http://www.carel-willink.nl/
This is a good example of a magical realist painting:
http://www.tendreams.org/willink/Camel%20in%20the%20park%20of%20Versailles%202a.jpg
2007-11-26 18:56:40 · answer #3 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Does Magical Realism Mean
2017-03-02 09:57:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
check out Dali
2007-11-26 16:11:08 · answer #5 · answered by charlene r 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋