HISTART 88 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Viceroyalty Of Peru, Social Realism, Pancho Fierro
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History of art 88 lecture 21 indigenism and social realism. Indigenism: a national art style that is keyed toward national politics (in mexico, Peru, and other parts o latin america: primarily an early 20th c. movement of art making, philosophy, literature (broad, interdisciplinary, centers upon emerging forms of national identity, concerned with indigenous and folklore subjects. Costumbriso: 19th c, illustration of local customs, costumes, and folk traditions in art and literature, often produced by foreign artists, travel-artists, sometimes scientists (e. g. humboldt, catherwood, etc. ), and also by local, non-white artists (e. g. pancho fierro) Emphasis on the planer surface, lack of volumetric depth. Religious connotation found in the general arrangement of the composition as well as the almost reverential positioning of the figures (seated, praying women and cross-like flower man) Reminiscent of ancient olmec sculpture pre-columbian in the fact that the figures look like they are carved from stone.
