Magic Realism
マジック・リアリズム / 1925–1970s / Style / Figurative Painting
描绘彻底写实，却因光线、布置与静默而让现实整体偏移一格的绘画。不借助超现实主义式的变形，只把寻常之物以异样的明晰摆放，便同时唤起不安与静谧。其命名源自1925年的德国美术批评。
坚硬而均匀的光 / 异样明晰的描绘 / 静止的人物与器物 / 不作解释的布置
辞典词条
- 适用场景
- 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
- 字体
- A quiet transitional serif, generously letterspaced, kept well clear of the image so it never explains it.
- 版面
- A single frontal scene with one object placed where the eye does not expect it, surrounded by a wide and undisturbed margin.
- 材料
- Matte, non-reflective stock and an even shadowless colour field: no grain, no gloss, nothing that suggests the picture was handled.
- 注意
- 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.
- 延伸阅读
- Franz Roh's coining of the term in 1925 / Its relation to New Objectivity / The term's transfer to Latin American literature