{"id":197003,"date":"2026-05-21T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=197003"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:13:25","slug":"magic-realism-the-new-objectivity-that-changed-modern-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=197003","title":{"rendered":"Magic Realism: The \u2018New Objectivity\u2019 That Changed Modern Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cce2752407ff203cbd5ebc60fa9f51e2 wp-block-paragraph\">For the S\/S 2011 print issue of .Cent, the photographer and filmmaker Minnie Weisz guest-edited an issue titled The Seeing Stories, Telling Pictures. A master of the camera obscura, Minnie acts as an explorer of &#8216;houses of memories&#8217; capturing the hidden souls of forgotten buildings. From the streets of King\u2019s Cross to abandoned interiors, her work humanizes the architectural void, blending cinematic mystery with a romantic touch. Moving beyond the lens to explore the storytelling and imagination of an artist who finds magic in the ruins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-308a0da1bccbee8a1776c62864f76fe2 wp-block-paragraph\">Art has always possessed the unique power to look beneath the surface of daily life, uncovering the eerie, the unexplained, and the wondrous. This blurring of boundaries defines Magic Realism, a genre that captures the everyday world but bathes it in an unfamiliar, dreamlike dimension, proving that mystery is deeply woven into our reality. Here, guest editor Minnie Weisz reflects on how this enduring craving for the extraordinary shaped her own creative journey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0d8cc1df2381556ec5fbf7cbcf9cb87a wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#220c61\"><strong><em>\u2018As a teenager I started to read books by Italo Calvino and realised they had their roots in magic realism. I like the idea of magical things happening out of context: not appearing and not being explained, just being there. Here we look at magic realism through the art work of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement, which arose in 1920s Germany and has gone on to inform and influence magic realism in art today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5a86d3ee16bb77ebb7f431484b2ff006 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#220c61\"><em><strong>We have a piece written by the artist Claus Brusen and examples of the art from Otto Dix, an artist from the early years of the movement, and Andrea Kowch, a contemporary painter and illustrator who draws on Neue Sachlichkeit.\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-23f9d9cb0828821c139ca582ae47f188 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#220c61\">Minnie Weisz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f0a959d0fec31480474f07cf63c51385 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0c2967\"><strong>Magic Realism Definition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-34a2d08fc7a33dfa87e45ad90c971f05 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0c2967\"><em>Claus Brusen<\/em>: In my eyes, magic realism has existed since medieval times as a form of expression, which includes a mixture of photographic lookalike and caricature, the exaggeration of symbols and figures and objects placed in perfect harmony. In medieval times, Bosch and Bruegel were the painters who described reality with a twist of absurdity and they still influence many artists today. Bruegel created ordinary life scenes from the villages of the Netherlands and Bosch&#8217;s work was a mix of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/the-dreamy-drink-of-the-dandies\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/the-dreamy-drink-of-the-dandies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dream <\/a><\/strong>and nightmare, from absolute beauty to extreme horror. This was a way of describing the Bible in those days, as many peasants couldn&#8217;t read. So, in order to instill the fear of straying from religion, magic realist painters were needed to describe the Bible as they wanted it to be presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bosch_follower_Christ_Before_Pilate_Princeton.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bosch_follower_Christ_Before_Pilate_Princeton.jpg?resize=580%2C451&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Christ Before Pilate (c. 1520) by Hieronymus Bosch\" class=\"wp-image-197082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bosch_follower_Christ_Before_Pilate_Princeton.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bosch_follower_Christ_Before_Pilate_Princeton.jpg?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-de90d12b31df03e8467261f3d90b22d6 wp-block-paragraph\">Christ Before Pilate (c. 1520) by Hieronymus Bosch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-607969e0f770835ecabaf9f794ee8e74 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0c2967\"><strong>New Objectivity Art Movement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-179e1952112bea814ec74fd158043b82 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0c2967\"><em>Claus Brusen<\/em>: Moving forward hundreds of years, the new objectivity, called &#8216;Neue Sachlichkeit&#8217;,was a magic realism art movement that arose in Germany in the early 1920s, which came about as an outgrowth of, and in opposition to, <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/modern-women-in-abstract-expressionism\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/modern-women-in-abstract-expressionism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>expressionism<\/strong><\/a>. The movement essentially ended in 1933 when the Nazis rose to power. The main characteristic of this &#8216;new objectivity&#8217; is the representation of domestic indoors or scenes of everyday life expressed in an unreal dimension. The main protagonists in Germany were Max Beckmann, Conrad Felixmuller, George Grosz, Otto Dix and Christian Schad. The movement used contemporary subjects, often in cool detachment and sometimes injecting an eerie atmosphere. They attempt to show us the everyday world in new and unfamiliar ways. They remind us that there are still many mysteries in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b98df14238a83f33b0720fec840d97d2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0c2967\"><strong>Modern Magic Realism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-45d052c11029ca4085ffe2cf7cfe1bf2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0c2967\"><em>Claus Brusen<\/em>: In the present day, magic realism is a movement that is growing rapidly. It&#8217;s as if there is a need for the magic, the absurd and the storytelling after many years of nonfigurative art. However, I believe this is not without other influences. I can mention lots of things which made art turn to magic realism again, such as rock album cover art from the sixties and seventies and, in the eighties, computer games which began to grow in quality from Pacman into visual works of wonders with role-playing games. Later came films such as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and The Golden Compass, to mention the best known. All this could only grow because there was a need to feel the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/love-the-magical-hotels-that-bring-childhood-dreams-to-life\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/love-the-magical-hotels-that-bring-childhood-dreams-to-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">magic <\/a><\/strong>again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-37f65a04c1a72087c9fd89c0b1b080bf wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0c2967\"><strong>Surrealism Painting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0707e99c9bcb3677aadeb8822794833d wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0c2967\"><em>Claus Brusen<\/em>: My influence as an artist came from a mixture of <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/a-life-in-light-imagination-remembering-angus-mcbean\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/a-life-in-light-imagination-remembering-angus-mcbean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>surrealism<\/strong> <\/a>and fantasy art from the comic world and the music industry. Later I was influenced by decadent Victorian art by artists such as Richard Dadd, John Anster Fitzgerald and Sir Joseph Noel Paton, but they had already made their versions of old fairytales. So, for me, it became interesting to create my own world. Which I called &#8216;Nactalius&#8217;,a name which came out of nowhere back in 1981. Besides being a magic realism painter, I have now for some six years arranged large international <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/are-portraits-the-art-worlds-self-love-and-self-obsession\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/are-portraits-the-art-worlds-self-love-and-self-obsession\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exhibitions <\/a><\/strong>to promote this genre. This has led to a biennale, held in Denmark since 2005. The next installment is planned for the autumn of 2011 and is based around the theme \u2018The Freakshow&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The_captive_robin.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The_captive_robin.jpg?resize=580%2C387&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Captive Robin (c. 1864) by John Anster Fitzgerald\" class=\"wp-image-197085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The_captive_robin.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The_captive_robin.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ae37aba8d2e501aef59c8b2fbc951453 wp-block-paragraph\">The Captive Robin (c. 1864) by John Anster Fitzgerald<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d7042a0527466c5a90d506d3e1457a9e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0c2967\"><strong>Modern Art <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-830a1de877aa7cebf06988f117e8be03 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#0c2967\"><em>Claus Brusen<\/em>: What the <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/__trashed-21\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/__trashed-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Victorians <\/strong><\/a>considered freaks are today ordinary people walking among us. The extreme has become a symbol for a lot of people to make their mark and state that they are different. People get implants, piercings and tattoos to the extreme, so as not to look like everybody else. It is, today, possible to actually look like Barbie girl or the Incredible Hulk. In some sense, you can say that this movement has become a part of life, as well as a part of art. So it would be very strange if we didn&#8217;t see this art represented as a genre in all museums in the future. It&#8217;s like it has been brewing in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/beautiful-album-covers-with-images-to-desire\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/beautiful-album-covers-with-images-to-desire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">underground <\/a><\/strong>forever and now is being recognised as a movement that exists and has done so since at least the year 1400. Magic is truly born again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-657e53faa6f4c96d40983ae784902920 wp-block-paragraph\">Magic Realism: The \u2018New Objectivity\u2019 That Changed Modern Art reminds us that the world is far more mysterious than it appears. From Bosch\u2019s nightmares to Claus Brusen\u2019s &#8216;Nactalius&#8217;, this movement proves our enduring need for the absurd and the magical. Just as Minnie Weisz finds the soul in forgotten ruins, these artists show us that magic is ever-present, waiting to be recognized. As it moves from the underground to the museum, this genre serves as a lasting inspiration: magic is truly born again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-24d29c95a47509a6cddf718fc21e6cae wp-block-paragraph\">If you enjoyed reading&nbsp;Magic Realism: The \u2018New Objectivity\u2019 That Changed Modern Art, then why not read <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/berlin-full-circle\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/berlin-full-circle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Berlin: Full Circle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11f6c0689a1120cd3d57a3cc72ce0ba6 wp-block-paragraph\">.Cent Magazine London.&nbsp;<strong><em>Luxury Mindset<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the S\/S 2011 print issue of .Cent, the photographer and filmmaker Minnie Weisz 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