In 1942, the Museum of Modern Art in New York showcased Magic Realism in the exhibition American Realists and Magic Realists. When Roh coined the term he meant it to create an art category that strayed from the strict guidelines of realism, but the term did not name an artistic movement until the 1940s in Latin America and the Caribbean. The term magical realism was introduced by Franz Roh, a German art critic in 1925.
Just as realism was a response to romanticism, magical realism was a further development to realism. These artists took realism to a whole new level, particularly en plein air, which we all know now as Impressionism.) (As an aside, those of our readers who are interested in Impressionism and Cubism may know that Courbet taught artists such as Rousseau, Corot and Edouard Manet, who in turn influenced Monet, Sisley, Bazille, Degas, Morisot, Renoir and others in the 1860s. 1Īnne has also looked at the work of Courbet in a previous post, with a particular focus on eyes, and if you are interested to click here. His work, along with that of Honoré Daumier and Jean-François Millet, became known as Realism. He courted controversy by addressing social issues in his work, and by painting subjects that were considered vulgar, such as the rural bourgeoisie, peasants, and working conditions of the poor. Before Millet and Courbet, artists of the Romantic period had produced work that idealized reality, and made everything beautiful and perfect, whether it was landscapes, still lifes, portraits or figurative art.Ĭourbet was instead committed to painting only what he could see, and rejected the academic convention, perfection and stylisation of Romanticism. Realism began as an artistic movement in the 19th century, led by French artists Jean-Francois Millet and Gustave Courbet. However, to understand how magic realism developed, in art terms,^ it is useful to look back and understand a little about Realism, the movement it was derived from.
The simplest definition is that unusual or fantastical things are included as ordinary occurrences in pictures that are otherwise about normal, every-day life. Today I would really like to show you the fascinating work of Robert (Rob) Gonsalves (1959 – 2017), a Canadian artist whose works fall into the category of magic realism.
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