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.- Long overshadowed by the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, magic realisms reputation is on the way up again. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting 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 American Realists and Magic Realists at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), organized by curator Dorothy C. Miller with assistance from museum director Alfred H. Barr Jr. and arts impresario Lincoln Kirstein. The Georgia Museum of Arts exhibition includes works originally presented in MoMAs show, including paintings by Ivan Albright, Paul Cadmus, Z. Vanessa Helder and Patsy Santo, as well as other . More
Magic realism reexamined in new exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art
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.
ATHENS, GA
.- Long overshadowed by the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, magic realisms reputation is on the way up again. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting 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.
Magic Realist Masterworks on View at Jonathan Boos
NEW YORK, New York
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Jonathan Boos has a group of important and rare Magic Realist works on view at our New York gallery by Peter Blume, Henry Koerner, Alton Pickens and George Tooker. We welcome you to call or email the gallery to make an appointment to visit.
On February 27th, the Georgia Museum of Art will open “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism,” the first sustained survey of Magical Realism in four decades. “Extra Ordinary” celebrates American artists who embraced realism, representation and classical artistic techniques in an era dominated by Abstraction. On view through June 13th, the show features significant works by Ivan Albright, Peter Blume, Paul Cadmus, Philip Evergood, Jared French, Henry Koerner, Hughie Lee-Smith, George Tooker and John Wilde.
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 .