ERK Roh et al

Roh

In this article, Roh attempts to explain the evolution of several different art styles from impressionism to expressionism and then from expressionism to post-expressionism and futurism. Roh starts out by arguing that we can examine the differences in phases of art by examining the objects that artists depict in the art. He also emphasizes the way in which the objects are depicted. Roh sees espressionism in response to impressionism as depicting more "fantastic, extraterrestrial and remote objects." This trend gave rise to futurism in which the objective world was depicted in an "abrupt" and cryptic from. In response to futurism. post_expressionism sought to compromise by making the strange influences of futurism and expressionism a part of reality and depicting them as normal.

Flores

In this article, Flores argues that magical realism began as a movenemt in the 1930's and was started by Borges. The works of this writing style usually represent time as changeable and abstract and depict a reality where unreal things are commonplace.

Leal

Leal argues in response to Flores' claims about the origins or magical realism that the genre was not started in 1935 by Borges. The term magical realism was first used by Roh in 1925 and first used in Latin America in 1948. Leal believes that this genre should "express emotions and not evoke them," and that "the writer confronts reality and tries to untangle it" in true magical realism.