Fantastic Realism: summary, main characteristics and artists

Or Fantastic Realism, or Magical Realism, arose not the beginning of the XX century and it continues to attract the public at the two days of the leaf.

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I summarize: O que é or Fantastic Realism?

Or Fantastic Realism is an artistic style that manifests itself especially in literature, but is also present in other fields of culture, such as painting and cinema.

As or not indicated, or Fantastic Realism combines a realistic vision of the world with magical elements that are inserted in everyday dining rooms.

Also known, in Spanish, as Wonderful Realism, or movement that began to emerge in Latin America during the 1940s, dating back to its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s.

Intimately linked to the sociopolitical context of the time, or style deeply marked Latin-American literature, it has not had or had the same impact in Brazil.

Em meio to dystopian cenarios, or Fantastic Realism he saw normalize magic as an integral part gives life.

Also, in a number of imaginative possibilities capable of breaking a melancholic rotina, these artistic expressions come to see how we face life and reality.

Fantastic Realism Features

Embora or Fantastic Realism assumes different configurations, in various contexts, and through diverse forms of artistic expression, there are some fundamental characteristics that we can bet.

• Some elements of the fantastic order are inserted in realistic and everyday settings, as they are common;
• These elements are faced with some naturality, with a great surprise, shock or apprehension;
• There is no rational explanation for fantastic events, which are hardly open to subjective interpretations;
• O tempo is not treated in a linear way, being able to establish links between present and past, as are the ecoassem events with each other;
• It is related to themes or figures that are part of the common image of a certain place, many times integrating their beliefs and myths;

Fantastic Realism in literature

Or "Fantastic Realism" or "Magical Realism" emerged not at the beginning of the XX century, linked to German painting, as we will see further.

In 1949, not so much, the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier recovered the thermo to refer to a trend that was verified in Latin American literature.

Passou, assim, to be appointed umaliterary school and also a fictional style that combined fantasy and realism.

Faced as a response to works of European fantastic literature, the artistic current jumps with the superstitions two povos of Latin America, reproducing its myths and legends.

A true, or more banal object or event could represent a place of transition between reality and fantasy.

By all means, or Magic Realism focuses on the stylistic aspect of writing, dealing with emotions and senses and maintaining a layer of verossimilhança about the most unusual events.

As a tempo, a current literary movement has spread to the world, influencing the works of great European writers such as Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera.

Cem Anos de Solidão: major work of Fantastic Realism

Among the only ones that stand out, Fantastic Realism, or Colombian Gabriel García Márquez é, sem dúvida, um dos mais famous.

To work Cem Anos de Solidão, Published in 1967, it is listed as one of the two greatest books of Hispanic literature, as well as the highest exponent of Magic Realism.

A narrative follows the passages of seven gerações da família Buendía, which lives a fictícia povoação called Macondo. A first geração e composta by José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán, a woman who lives for over 115 years and has lived the lives of all her descendants.

O seu olhar allows a cyclical notion of tempo, establishing similarity relationships between members of various gerações that partilham or same nome and various psychological characteristics.

O livro combines historical moments of Colombia, daily events of family and events Supernatural: people who die and return to life, reincarnation, skewness and insônia collective.

Historic context

It was not by chance that Latin American countries felt more and more attracted to magical narratives.

Starting in the 1950s, these few faced a difficult historical moment, com various nations oppressed by ditatory regimes.

For the case of Guatemala, Paraguai, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay and Chile, among other countries. During a period of media and repression, this literature emerged as a response, a form of reaction.

Maybe because of isso, or style is loaded with hope e offers to the reader a unique vision and magical means of life: impressed that something marvelous can happen at any moment and change everything.

Main authors of Fantastic Realism

• Arturo Uslar Pietri (Venezuela, 1906 - 2001)
• Alejo Carpentier (Cuba, 1904 - 1980)
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colômbia, 1927 - 2014)
• Isabel Allende (Chile, 1942)
• Julio Cortazar (Argentina, 1914 - 1984)
• Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina, 1899 - 1986)
• Manuel Scorza (Peru, 1928 - 1983)
• Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru, 1936)
• Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala, 1899 - 1974)
• Carlos Fuentes (Mexico, 1928 - 2012)
• Laura Esquivel (Mexico, 1950)

Fantastic realism no Brazil

I don't have as much force in Brazil as in other Latin American countries, or Fantastic Realism also has some national representatives.

Or writer and journalist Murilo Rubião (1916 - 1991) introduziu or non-country style, through stories that used fantastic elements to question reality. Or author lançou or seu first livro de ella, Or Ex-Magical, em 1947.

Jose J. Veiga (1915 - 1999), writer born in Goiás, was another notoriously unrealistic fantasy of the Portuguese language.

His works of fiction, such as Os Cavalinhos de Platiplanto (1959), ficaram made by combining stylistic concerns with social and political criticism.

Fantastic Realism in painting

Or thermo "Fantastic Realism" or "Magical Realism" emerged in 1925, when the art critic Franz Roh or used to falar de uma trend or current in German painting.

Even before Hitler's fascist rule, some artists were painting canvases that mixed fantastic and realistic elements. Normally, we represent vam Cenários corriqueiros that were crossed by, hair less, an unusual image ou fantastic.

Due to his influence, the rest of Europe and the Americas spread, inspiring several contemporary artists.

The pictures are demarcated by incorporating a fantastic one with a type of explanation, as it is said to be the same part of the real thing. The effects of surprise and strangeness will conquer the attention of the public, as it is enchanted or intrigued.

Eventually, or thermo ended up being neglected in the face of other labels such as Nova Objetividade, making it difficult to identify two artists who belong to the movement.

Likewise, we can bet some painters like Caspar Walter Rauh, Wojtek Siudmak and Conrad Felixmüller enquanto representatives of Fantastic Realism in the visual arts.

Painters of Fantastic Realism

• Alexander Kanoldt (German, 1881 - 1939)
• Carl Grossberg (German, 1894 - 1940)
• Christian schad (Alemanha, 1894 - 1982)
• Franz Radziwill (Alemanha, 1895 - 1983)
• Georg schiriptf (German, 1889 - 1938)
• Conrad Felixmüller (German, 1897 - 1977)
• Caspar Walter Rauh (Alemanha, 1912 - 1983)
• Pyke koch (Holland, 1901 - 1991)
• Dick ket (Holland, 1902 - 1940)
• Carel Willink (Holland, 1900 - 1983)
• Wojtek Siudmak (Polônia, 1942)

Magic Realism no cinema

O cinema has been two artistic fields quais or Fantastic Realism continues to be represented.

O genre still conquers the hearts of the public, with films capable of Trazer to magic for the cinzento world and for time it is sad that we live.

An example of the film Peixe Grande and its Wonderful Stories (2003), directed by Tim Burton. No longa-metragem, or protagonist has an enchanted perspective facing a common life, with a lot of fantasy and imagination.

Or work of the Mexican director Guillermo del Toro I have also contributed extensively to the dissemination of this type of cinema, with international events such as Or Labirinto do Fauno (2006).

One of your most recent movies, A Forma da Água (2017), tells the story of a woman who finds herself stunned by being aquatic. Trust or trailer the film below:

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