
Drawing Sunday 1 September 2024 Magic Title slide of the Magic in Art lecture I am not teaching any more , but when I was , one of the lectures I gave was on magic and art . I proposed that magic was at the core of the process we now call art and that the boundary between the real and the unreal is what is played with in both the performance of magic and art . As key examples I used images from ancient Egypt , Rome , India and Greece , and suggested that often there was no distinction between art and magic . nbsp What I wanted to do was to question the passivity of objects and to highlight how objects affect our experience of perception and effect change in our minds and bodies . Hopefully this way of thinking would lead to the construction of a different , more animist relationship with .