Gallery: Galleries: Diverse styles exploring a bit of magic realism Edith Newhall, For The Inquirer Posted: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 3:01 AM Magic realism has never gone out of fashion in literature, but it hasn't had much of a presence in art since the late 1950s, when informed art-world tastes turned to bolder, bigger, less-allusive art. Over the last decade, though, the psychologically complex, dreamy paintings of Paul Cadmus, Jared French, George Tooker, Dorothea Tanning, Ivan Albright, and others have found an appreciative audience in artists who've grown up with books and movies (and video games) celebrating the impossible and unbelievable, not to mention sorcery. In Philadelphia...
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