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Grandparents
Rosemary Achata
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 23 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 9.1 inch
$364
Hill and Hoop
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 27 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 10.6 x 0 inch
$455
banksy policemen tribute
Ludo Gianroma
Sculpture - 22 x 28 x 2 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 11 x 0.8 inch
$432
Amadryades Mimétiques Arborescentes
Salvador Dali
Print - 50 x 66 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 26 x 0 inch
$1,364
Adam et Eve (Suite Mythologique Nouvelle) en noir
Salvador Dali
Print - 80 x 58 x 0.1 cm Print - 31.5 x 22.8 x 0 inch
$1,023
Venus Mars et Cupidon (Suite Mythologique Nouvelle)
Salvador Dali
Print - 77 x 57 x 0.1 cm Print - 30.3 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$1,023
Le femme cheval from Dalinean Horses
Salvador Dali
Print - 56 x 36 x 0.1 cm Print - 22 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$3,024
L'Alchimiste (The Alchemist)
Salvador Dali
Print - 76.5 x 56.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 30.1 x 22.2 x 0 inch
$10,174
Le Triomphe from "Triumph of Love"
Salvador Dali
Print - 75 x 55 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0 inch
$5,320
Triomphe De L'Amour, Set of 2 Surrealist Lithographs
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 56 x 1 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0.4 inch
$12,277
Homage to Newton
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 35 x 16 x 11 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 6.3 x 4.3 inch
$21,144
Scythian Sea, Cycle of Being
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 110 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 1 inch
$2,058
The Winds of Change
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$966
Sisters in the garden, Gardens of Resilience series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$739
Hommage à Terpsichore
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 70.5 x 44 x 23 cm Sculpture - 27.8 x 17.3 x 9.1 inch
$46,585
Sculpteur avec son modèle
Pablo Picasso
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,274
Le Repos du Sculpteur, IV
Pablo Picasso
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,274
Mavka and the Woodland Fairy: Enchanted Garden, Gardens of Resilience series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$512
Wandering the Planet, Gardens of Resilience series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$512
Saint George et le Dragon
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 46 x 45 x 28 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 17.7 x 11 inch
$39,560
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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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