On Feb. 27, the Georgia Museum of Art will open its latest exhibition, âExtra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism.â The focus of this exhibit is âmagic realism,â a genre of art that emerged in the 1940s.
The genre is âoften compared to surrealism, but while surrealism focuses on the life of the mind, magic realism is grounded in the real world, showing fantastical elements as a part of everyday life,â according to the Georgia Museum of Art s website.
Michael Ricker, one of two sponsors for âExtra Ordinary,â said that this confusion is what motivated him to help start the exhibition.
Adriana Varejão. Photo by Vicente de Mello, courtesy the artist and Gagosian.
3. “Artist Spotlight: Adriana Varejão” at Gagosian, New York
Gagosian continues its weekly Spotlight series, highlighting one work from one artist, with Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão, ahead of her May show at the gallery’s 522 West 21st Street location. On Wednesday, the gallery is releasing a new time-lapse video of the artist creating one of her tile paintings, inspired by the Portuguese art of
azulejo, traditional glazed terracotta tiles brought to Brazil in colonial times. The new work will be unveiled on Friday, available for sale for only 48 hours.
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 exhibition .
The campus and city news desks have compiled a list of events going on throughout the upcoming week that are open to the public. The list features Valentine’s Day-themed celebrations,