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Magic Realism
Magic Realism is an aesthetic style or narrative mode in literature
in which magical elements are blended into a realistic atmosphere in order to access a deeper understanding of reality. -
Philip Evergood
Philip Evergood was anartist during the Magic Realism movement who decided to do art in 1921. He then when to New York where he studied art at Art Students League of New York in 1923. this picture is of him -
Franz Roh
Magical Realism was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh. He was also a photographer. -
Ivan Albright
Ivan Albright is most known for his self portrait paintings during the Magic Realism Movement. One of his portrait paintings were of Mary Block. -
Gregory Gillespie
Gregory Gillespie was born in 1936. In 1959 he married a artist named Frances Cohen. Gregory studied the renaissance for many yeears and lliked art. He is most known for landscape paintings and self portraits. In 2000 on April 26 he was found dead at his house of a suicide hanging. His art work was put in many museums like the Whitney Museum, Arkansas art center, and Butler Institute of American Art. -
George Tooker
Geroge Tooker is one of Magic Realisms most prominent artist. He always wanted to go to art school instead of college, but went to Harvard University anyway while still devoting his time into painting. This picture is a self portrait that he did of himself. -
Andrew Weyth
Anrews most known painting is the painting of Christina's world. It is a painting of a girl lying on the ground in a treeless field. Who is looking up and crwling towrads a gray house in the horizon. -
Marcela Donoso
Marcela Donoso is an important artist during the Magic Realsim Movement. She was born In 1961. She mostly just did paintings. One of her works were about myths and legends of Chile. -
Bettina Shaw Lawrence
Bettina Shaw Lawrence was a painter during this time period. She studied painting and drawing. She manily taught herself about everything she knows about painting and drawing.She worked as a proffesional painter until the 1980s. Most of her work though was figurative and expresses itself mainly through oil paintings. She also did self portraits. One of her self portraits were of David Gascoyne.
