Aplicación de iconografías precolombinas de la cultura Valdivia en la creación de serie pictórica

Abstract

This artistic research project concerns Ecuadorian pre-Columbian art, in this case what corresponds to the iconography of the Valdivia Culture, one of the oldest and most important in Ecuador and America. Also considered as the first culture to work ceramics in Mesoamerica. Its purpose is to study his iconography, symbols, morphology and graphics of both his sculptures and ceramics, highlighting the visual and aesthetic beauty of the beautiful figurines world famous as "Venus de Valdivia". In this work it is proposed to describe characteristic elements of Valdivia’s pre-Columbian artistic conception, abstract and refigure the designs of previously selected archaeological pieces, which generally have anthropomorphic, zoomorpha and geometric forms. This analysis will allow us to extrapolate the ideas and designs of pre-Columbian Valdivian artists, as a source of creation for application in a pictorial series called: "The Splendour of Valdivia". Finding new expressions that lead us to an aesthetic-philosophical discourse, graphic, renewed and current, and based on these images in addition to the inspiration of the artist-researcher plasma them in this pictorial proposal, we take as reference the drawings that were made by the redrawing and coding team published in the catalog of iconography of ancient Ecuador. (Sacha, 2019). Demonstrate from a relevant line of research, the correlations and dialogues that are generated in accordance with pre-Columbian art and contemporary artistic production, applying theoretical-practical methods in the argumentation of the conceptual framework of the proposed artistic proposal.