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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Portrait de Femme dans Roseraie
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 43.5 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 17.1 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€400
Tea time, Sweet Home series
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 49.5 x 29.5 x 2 cm Painting - 19.5 x 11.6 x 0.8 inch
€450
Songe revisité
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 20 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€475 €452
L'Art d'aimer d'Ovide, La Déesse de Cythère
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 54 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.3 inch
€3,500
Lilies from my garden
Elena Shichko
Painting - 45.5 x 63 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.9 x 24.8 x 0 inch
€440
Aymeric Bergadat du Cadet
Sorrel Mocchia di Coggiola
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€4,600
She Unknown
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.4 x 11.6 x 0 inch
€400
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
€400
L'Art d'aimer d'Ovide, Fille de Minos
Salvador Dali
Print - 76 x 54 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.3 inch
€3,500
L'ange triomphant
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 50 x 18 x 17 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 7.1 x 6.7 inch
€35,880
Grandparents
Rosemary Achata
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 23 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 9.1 inch
€320
Anemone per Anti-Pasti (Anemone of the Toreador) from Florals
Salvador Dali
Print - 55.9 x 38.1 cm Print - 22 x 15 inch
€2,722
D'après l'Absinthe d'Egar Degas
Françoise Leblond
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1 inch
€4,030
Vision de L’ange
Salvador Dali
Sculpture - 44 x 34.5 x 34.5 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 13.6 x 13.6 inch
€24,960
Éditions ceci n’est pas une pipe
René Magritte
Print - 9 x 12 x 6 cm Print - 3.5 x 4.7 x 2.4 inch
€85
Voyage à travers l'impossible
Teddy Gardez
Print - 110 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€860
Au pays du Jatayu
Françoise Leblond
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,000