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About Magic Realism
Description of Magic Realism
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About Magic Realism
Description of Magic Realism |
Magic Realism
Style
of
painting
popular
in
Europe
and
the
USA
mainly
from
the
1920s
to
1940s,
with
some
followers
in
the
1950s.
It
occupies
a
position
between
Surrealism
and
Photorealism,
whereby
the
subject
is
rendered
with
a
photographic
naturalism,
but
where
the
use
of
flat
tones,
ambiguous
perspectives
and
strange
juxtapositions
suggest
an
imagined
or
dreamed
reality.
The
term
was
introduced
by
art
historian
Frank
Roh
in
his
book
Nach-Expressionismus:
Magischer
Realismus
(1925)
to
describe
a
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Artists Associated with Magic Realism — 9 artists:
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