Magic Realism
マジック・リアリズム / 1925–1970s / Style / Figurative Painting
Peinture d'une facture rigoureusement réaliste où la lumière, la disposition et le silence décalent le réel d'un cran. Sans recourir aux déformations du surréalisme, elle place des objets ordinaires avec une netteté insolite et suscite à la fois l'inquiétude et le calme. Le terme vient de la critique d'art allemande de 1925.
Lumière dure et uniforme / Description d'une clarté étrange / Figures et objets immobiles / Agencements sans explication
Entrée du dictionnaire
- Usages idéaux
- Brand photography and film stills that must feel calm and slightly wrong: fragrance, luxury goods, speculative fiction · Editorial illustration for essays whose subject is ordinary life seen from an angle that will not resolve
- Typographie
- A quiet transitional serif, generously letterspaced, kept well clear of the image so it never explains it.
- Composition
- A single frontal scene with one object placed where the eye does not expect it, surrounded by a wide and undisturbed margin.
- Matière
- Matte, non-reflective stock and an even shadowless colour field: no grain, no gloss, nothing that suggests the picture was handled.
- Précaution
- Reaching for melting clocks and impossible bodies: the moment the description breaks, the work is Surrealist, and the particular chill of the ordinary held too clearly is gone.
- Pour approfondir
- Franz Roh's coining of the term in 1925 / Its relation to New Objectivity / The term's transfer to Latin American literature