Franz Roh
Franz Roh in his essay argues that in this world of selection and creation people might try to have a history of art that would include all of the favorite themes and in an attempt to do so, new influences in methods of painting appeared.
Roh introduced the term ‘’Magical Realism’’ in his essay and discussed about the many characteristics of magical realism in Post-Expressionist paintings. Describing the ways in which this new movement (Post-Expressionist) returns to a renewed delight in real objects. Roh claimed that Post-expressionism tried to reintegrate the elemental happiness of having a visual perception again and making painting as the mirror to the tangible exterior.
Along his essay Roh emphasizes in the many differences between Post-Expressionism with Realism, Futurism and Impressionism. To illustrate with some of the main ideas: Roh said that these new paintings were real and clear forms of art as opposed to fantastic ones (Realism), which were join in a way that does not adapt to the human race daily reality. Furthermore, that this new forms of painting included a return to objectivity and the material, as opposed to Expressionism and Impressionism’s tendency to ignore the matter. Moreover, believes that Magic realism's focus on the actual existence of things of mundane subject matter as opposed to the Expressionist preference for magical, fantastic and unreal objects. In the last part of his essay Roh wrote about the use of miniature details in this Post-expressionism form of painting even in large landscapes that was much more precise than Expressionism.
He finally concluded his essay saying that as much as Impressionism and Realism were a fantastic and delightful art, Magic realism paintings were something more perfect and complete in every aspect.
Franz Roh in his essay argues that in this world of selection and creation people might try to have a history of art that would include all of the favorite themes and in an attempt to do so, new influences in methods of painting appeared.
Roh introduced the term ‘’Magical Realism’’ in his essay and discussed about the many characteristics of magical realism in Post-Expressionist paintings. Describing the ways in which this new movement (Post-Expressionist) returns to a renewed delight in real objects. Roh claimed that Post-expressionism tried to reintegrate the elemental happiness of having a visual perception again and making painting as the mirror to the tangible exterior.
Along his essay Roh emphasizes in the many differences between Post-Expressionism with Realism, Futurism and Impressionism. To illustrate with some of the main ideas: Roh said that these new paintings were real and clear forms of art as opposed to fantastic ones (Realism), which were join in a way that does not adapt to the human race daily reality. Furthermore, that this new forms of painting included a return to objectivity and the material, as opposed to Expressionism and Impressionism’s tendency to ignore the matter. Moreover, believes that Magic realism's focus on the actual existence of things of mundane subject matter as opposed to the Expressionist preference for magical, fantastic and unreal objects. In the last part of his essay Roh wrote about the use of miniature details in this Post-expressionism form of painting even in large landscapes that was much more precise than Expressionism.
He finally concluded his essay saying that as much as Impressionism and Realism were a fantastic and delightful art, Magic realism paintings were something more perfect and complete in every aspect.
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Angel Flores
The main idea of this essay is that Angel Flores is trying to clean up Latin America literature in the eyes of the critics. This literature has been underestimated because critics have failed to call Magic Realism for what it is and to put it into the right movement and category. Some of the movements were Magic realism was put into were: realism, romanticism, naturalism and existentialism.
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Luis Leal
Luis Leal wrote his essay as a response to Angel Flores. He criticizes the vague definition of Magical realism that Flores intended to gave in his study and also the authors that he used to describe the movement because Leal considered that they did not fit in very well.
Leal begun his essay by saying what Magical realism is not, and then end with the definition of it. Particularly, he said that Magic Realism is not a magic literature because it does not create imaginary worlds. Then, he argued that this type of literature do not emphasize in the psychological analysis of the characters and the plot but totally the opposite, Leal said that Magic realism do not have logic explanations to why things happened the way they do. Moreover, he said that this movement does not create fantasy worlds nor is a ‘aesthetic’ or ‘escapist’ literature.
The correct definition of Magic realism for Leal was that this literature aim were: embrace the mystery without justification, having interest in the central imperceptible theme, and to clear up reality by watching how the humans act.
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