Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.
Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.
I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.
Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.
Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.
Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is related to "art for the market's sake. " It's a necessity, somewhat, for some people.
It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.
I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that. '
Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.
I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism.
Abstraction and realism work best together.
The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.
Idealism and realism meet in the actual.