Painters developed techniques
to create illusionistic realism in the
early Renaissance, especially by Flemish, German and
Italian painters. New and innovative techniques
developed over the following decades, brought
to a highly polished levels during the Dutch Golden Age
of the 17th Century and again in the
Neoclassical period of the late 18th and
early 19th Centuries. Many of these
techniques were bypassed with the advent
of Modernism during the late 19th and
early 20th Centuries. In Magic
Realism many techniques were rediscovered,
specifically to portray everyday objects.
Magic Realism therefore integrated
traditional techniques with contemporary
subject material. |