Theory Research - Realism and Literalism
- Mar 4, 2018
- 1 min read
"put your money where your mouth is"
"Bite the bullet", "Money Hungry", "The world is your oyster" are a few example of Perlegas' works, using common idioms from the English Language to build a piece of work from. Subject and appropriate to the idea of realism, his work encompasses and puts a spin on the theme in which I want to explore and have had ideas about for a long time without the realisation that there was a whole theory and body of work around the idea.
"Realism in the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts)
"In its specific sense realism refers to a mid nineteenth century artistic movement characterised by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner; however the term is also generally used to describe artworks painted in a realistic almost photographic way" - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/r/realism
MODERN REALISM
"The term modern realism is applied to painting or sculpture created since the development of abstraction in modern art but which continues to represent things in a realistic manner" - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/modern-realism
MAGIC REALISM
Giorgio de Chirico The Painter’s Family 1926 Tate © DACS, 2018
"The term magic realism was invented by German photographer, art historian and art critic Franz Roh in 1925 to describe modern realist paintings with fantasy or dream-like subjects" - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/magic-realism
LITERALISM
"The interpretation of words in their literal sense."
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