It's been an interesting week. Interviewing candidates for a curator position. One brought up the idea of Magic Realism - which I had to look up. I like the idea of being a part of a genre that I was not trying to be a part of. The original idea of Magic Realism by Franz Roh in 1925. He meant the term more as the idea that the world is magical - just as it is. Not supernatural.

Later the idea got to including more dreamlike - but still presented more as reality than imaginary. There is a comparison from Oregon State University that suggests that Magic Reality (also referred to as New Objectivity) is more sober than Expressionism. That the paint surfaces are thin as opposed to thick. But other writers state that there are no set rules. 

(http://www.phmoen.no/english/english_index.html?/english/magic_realism/what_is.html&main

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/ger341/exns.htm)