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Invisible Place
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 162 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
$16,817
Poison fish
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$2,466
Rayon néon 10
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$3,251
Cat chin-holder (everybody needs one)
Jacques Tange
Painting - 28 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 11 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$874
Les voyages extraordinaires
Teddy Gardez
Print - 110 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$964
Modern Borrowed Scenery Daiso 2
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 60.6 x 72.7 x 3 cm Painting - 23.9 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,027
Modern Borrowed Scenery DAISO
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 60.6 x 72.7 x 3 cm Painting - 23.9 x 28.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,027
Try to Wear Me
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 53 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 20.9 x 0 inch
$2,803
Finger Crossed
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 63 x 47 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.8 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$3,027
Circle game
Amber MA
Fine Art Drawings - 24.5 x 20 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.6 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,570
La légende de l’enfant-figue NO.2
Amber MA
Fine Art Drawings - 15.5 x 21.5 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.1 x 8.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,065
The legend of Fig Boys
Amber MA
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,345
Unstable fantasy
Amber MA
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 22.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 8.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,682
Rêve & réalité
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 120 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,924
The rioboss
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$3,475
Blu aquatic dream
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$3,027
Rayon néon 21
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$4,036
White Noise
Chien Hua Huang
Photography - 75 x 75 x 4 cm Photography - 29.5 x 29.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,767
Honfleur et la Capitainerie
Teddy Gardez
Print - 110 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$987
Three Students going to a Roman-Greco Party
Sorrel Mocchia di Coggiola
Painting - 65 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,157
The other side of blue I
Jacques Tange
Painting - 140 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$7,399
Best Actrees Award
Jacques Tange
Painting - 180 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$7,399
Magic Realism
The turn of phrase of magic realism was invented by German photographer, art historian and art critic Franz Roh in 1925 when he wished to describe modern realist paintings that portrayed fantastical or dream-like topics as their subjects of attention. The term originates from Roh's book Nach Expressionismus: Magischer Realismus which translates as “After Expressionism: Magic Realism".
In 20th century European culture, Magic Realism partook in a reactionary movement against modern or avant-garde art, known as the return to order. This movement in the arts was largely founded around a philosophy that came as a result of the legacy of the First World War. Magic realist artists included Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio and others in Italy, and Alexander Kanoldt and Adolf Ziegler in neighboring Germany. Magic Realism is closely related to the dreamlike depictions of Surrealism and Neo-Romanticism in France. The term is also used to describe the work of certain painters from across the pond in America in the 1940s and 1950s including Paul Cadmus, Philip Evergood and Ivan Albright. It has also been known to describe the practices of literature, such as the writing of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez.
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