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Long overshadowed by the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, magic realism’s reputation is on the way up again. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism” from February 27 to June 13, 2021, seeking to reexamine how we define magic realism and expand the canon of artists who worked within this category. The term “magic realism” was popularized in 1943 during the exhib...

“Extra Ordinary” exhibition on display at museum from Feb. 27 to June 13.

Magic Realism Exhibition To Open At Georgia Museum of Art ATHENS, Georgia Subject Line Please provide verification code Email is invalid Brian Connelly (American, 1926 – 1963), “A Night Garden,” 1955. Oil and casein on panel, 18 × 30 inches. The Schoen Collection: Magic Realism. Image courtesy of Debra Force Fine Art. Long overshadowed by the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, magic realism’s reputation is on the way up again. The Georgia Museum of Art at the...

©Sven Hansche/Shutterstock.com Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. The Pillars of Society (1926) A member of the Dada movement from 1917 to 1920, George Grosz satirized corrupt bourgeois society. As the moving force behind the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement, his attacks began to focus on the rising Nazi party. Constantly in ...