Magic Realism

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About Magic Realism

Photography and art. Nudity is fine but no porn or overly suggestive imagery. The photo itself should be the magic realism not photos of things that are suggestive of magic realism.

definitions from various sources:

• Briefly, the concept of Magic Realism has to do with the concept of "heightened reality" or the addition of another dimension of reality through a symbolic or metaphoric structure. It gives us a new way of preceiving the world, as if through a child looking at the world for the first time. The term is a derivation of "lo real maravilloso" which means literally, "The Marvelous Reality."

• A literary genre in which magical features and storylines appear and are accepted as everyday reality.
Magical realist stories often have a dream-like landscape and call on folk-lore and myth to question the true nature of reality. Time may be manipulated to appear cyclically or in reverse, rather than in the more usual linear way. It is often unclear whether the reader is intended to view the magical or everyday elements as the more 'real'.

• Magical realism is always serious, never escapist, because it is trying to convey the reality of one or several worldviews that actually exist, or have existed. ...There are three main effects by which magical realism conveys this different world-view, and those effects relate to the ways in which this world-view is different from the "objective" (empirical, positivist) view. In these other realities, time is not linear, causality is subjective, and the magical and the ordinary are one and the same.

• In painting, magical realism is a term often used interchangeably with post-expressionism. In 1925, art critic Franz Roh used this term to describe painting which signaled a return to realism after expressionism's extravagances which sought to redesign objects to reveal the spirits of those objects. Magical realism, according to Roh, instead faithfully portrays the exterior of an object, and in doing so the spirit, or magic, of the object reveals itself.
Other important aspects of magical realist painting, according to Roh, include:
A return to mundane subjects as opposed to fantastical ones.
A juxtaposition of forward movement with a sense of distance, as opposed to Expressionism's tendency to foreshorten the subject.
A use of miniature details even in expansive paintings, such as large landscapes.
Artists associated with magic realism include:
Ivan Albright
Paul Cadmus
Philip Evergood
Pedro Ipiña
George Tooker

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photography:
Mark Holthusen
James Nachtwey
Thomas Broening

Lookout by Yvonne Westra