Art and Magic Realism 19 th c Realism

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Art and “Magic Realism”

Art and “Magic Realism”

19 th c. Realism – Gustav Courbet Late 19 th c. Impressionism – Paul

19 th c. Realism – Gustav Courbet Late 19 th c. Impressionism – Paul Cezanne Early 20 th century Expressionism – August Macke Surrealism -Vladimir Kush New Objectivity/ Magic Realism – Uge Skulme 1924

1901 – Queen Victoria dies. 1912 – The Titanic Sinks 1914 -1918 – World

1901 – Queen Victoria dies. 1912 – The Titanic Sinks 1914 -1918 – World War I 1917 – The Bolshevik Revolution 1919 – Treaty of Versailles 1920 – Einstein publishes his theory of Relativity In the Victorian era they believed in PROGRESS, that the world was growing MORE CIVILIZED and BETTER After the horrors of WWI, those ideas were shaken. After Einstein declared Relativity, even the universe was not stable. The world had fallen apart. “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold” WBY http: //www. poetryfoundation. org/poem/172062 The Early 20 th Century

19 th Century - Dolce far niente Auguste Toulmouche (1877)

19 th Century - Dolce far niente Auguste Toulmouche (1877)

“Young Woman with Red Fan” Hermann Max Pechstein (1910 Germany)

“Young Woman with Red Fan” Hermann Max Pechstein (1910 Germany)

Nude Descending a Staircase Marcel Duchamp, 1912

Nude Descending a Staircase Marcel Duchamp, 1912

- Marcel Duchamp “Bicycle Wheel” 1913 - Dada and The Caberet Voltaire (1916) -

- Marcel Duchamp “Bicycle Wheel” 1913 - Dada and The Caberet Voltaire (1916) - http: //www. theartstory. org/movement-dada. htm

Marcel Duchamp 1919

Marcel Duchamp 1919

Meret Oppenheim “The Fur Teacup” 1936

Meret Oppenheim “The Fur Teacup” 1936

Expressionism “I and the Village” Marc Chagall (1911)

Expressionism “I and the Village” Marc Chagall (1911)

Franz Roh, from “Magical Realism: Post-Expressionism” (1925) “this fantastic dreamscape has completely vanished and…our

Franz Roh, from “Magical Realism: Post-Expressionism” (1925) “this fantastic dreamscape has completely vanished and…our world re-emerges before our eyes, bathed in the clarity of a new day” (17) Magic realism in painting “offers us the miracle of existence in its imperturbable duration; the unending miracle of eternally mobile and vibrating molecules. Out of the flux, that constant appearance and disappearance of material, permanent objects somehow appear: in short the marvel by which a variable commotion crystalizes into a clear set of constants. The miracle of an apparent persistence and duration in the midst of a demonic flux…”

Magic Realism - Giorgio de Chirico “The Enigma of a Day” (1914) “It seems

Magic Realism - Giorgio de Chirico “The Enigma of a Day” (1914) “It seems to us that this fantastic dreamscape has completely vanished and that our world re-emerges before our eyes, bathed in the clarity of a new day” (Franz Roh, “Magic Realism: Post Expressionism)

De Chirico – The Red Tower

De Chirico – The Red Tower

 George Grosz “Gray Day” 1921

George Grosz “Gray Day” 1921

Wilhelm Heise “Fading Spring” 1926

Wilhelm Heise “Fading Spring” 1926

Surrealism – Salvador Dali “The Persistence of Memory” (1931)

Surrealism – Salvador Dali “The Persistence of Memory” (1931)

Salvador Dali “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory” (1954)

Salvador Dali “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory” (1954)

 http: //www. tendreams. org/magic-art. htm Magic Realism in Art – “The New Objectivity”

http: //www. tendreams. org/magic-art. htm Magic Realism in Art – “The New Objectivity”