Apollinaire described a work by Erik Satie as above ordinary reality, using the word that became this art style
[DOC] [TLE] A Critical History of 20th-Century Art - artnet Magazine [PAR] In other words, art had a "spiritual" purpose, that is, it dealt with spirits, both good 
... his sense of art as "magical," that is, a defense against inner and outer reality, 
and, ...