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Community pot
Makenol Profil
Painting - 91 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$6,092 $3,656
Seule sous l'ombre du jaune
Arnold Fokam
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$4,527
Le Retour du Fils Prodigue I
Giorgio de Chirico
Print - 41.5 x 31 x 0.1 cm Print - 16.3 x 12.2 x 0 inch
$7,582
Calligrammes - Rare book illustrated
Giorgio de Chirico
Print - 34 x 26 x 1 cm Print - 13.4 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
$70,161
Exposition à la Galerie Matarasso, Nice
Joan Miró
Print - 62 x 48 cm Print - 24.4 x 18.9 inch
$5,092
Les Chambres, poèmes du temps qui ne passe pas
Man Ray
Print - 32 x 25 cm Print - 12.6 x 9.8 inch
$2,829
Tokyo Olympic Poster III
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 33 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 13 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$679
DH père & fils
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 130 x 103 x 1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 40.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,829
L'entrée d'un rêve
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$3,055
Maynard's profil
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$2,376
Rayon néon 16
Sébastien Fery-Voignier
Painting - 120 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$2,376
Interstice of Worlds
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$736
Journey Home: Preserving Serenity
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$736
The other side of blue
Jacques Tange
Painting - 30 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$905
Blue, pink, green, orange happy Horses Rose, Orange, Bleu, Vert 2006 Quatre Chevaux Joyeux
Frédéric Menguy
Print - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Print - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,120
The Green Horse 2002 Le Cheval Vert
Frédéric Menguy
Print - 19 x 19 cm Print - 7.5 x 7.5 inch
$1,120
Happy Pink Horse 2001 Le cheval rose joyeux
Frédéric Menguy
Print - 20 x 20 cm Print - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$1,120
Tigered
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$566
Ridley Goes Fashion
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 59.5 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$566
Inner
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$566
Sculptures en montagne, poème dans l'espace au pays du Mont-Blanc
Joan Miró
Print - 76 x 54.5 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.5 inch
$7,921
Affiche pour l'inauguration de la Fondació Joan Miró Barcelone
Joan Miró
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$6,224
Ouverture de la Fundacio Joan Miro Barcelone
Joan Miró
Print - 70 x 50 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$5,884
I Will Live, Existence series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$736
Sans titre (Un poème dans chaque livre Paul Eluard) ref BDNW2975
Joan Miró
Print - 32 x 50 cm Print - 12.6 x 19.7 inch
$22,067
Relief en bronze X
Max Ernst
Sculpture - 37 x 31.7 x 0.2 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 12.5 x 0.1 inch
$7,695
Reminiscence
Rosemary Achata
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$753
Invisible Place
Teppei Ikehila
Painting - 162 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 63.8 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
$16,974
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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