Propuesta Artística a Partir del Estudio de la Pintura Paisajista Cuencana, 1892-1920

Abstract

representation of nature through painting has been manifested in almost all stages of art, however, achieved notoriety and consolidation as an autonomous genre between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It appears mainly in Europe and spread to the rest of the world, we mention to South America that with its Andean Mountains and the Amazon, attracted from the beginning of the European colonialism, to many areas of the knowledge to study the new tropical territories, we speak Of biologists, botanists, volcanologists among whom South American artists and illustrators were also involved, generating mainly among the artists the sensitivity for the beauty of the natural landscape and its surroundings. The interest in documenting and attesting how the human being undertook development in direct relation with the space, in which he inhabited, became a common objective of landscapers. Cuenca´s artists, like the rest of Ecuadorian painters, were not the exception and proposed themselves to create spaces of knowledge in search of artistic improvement. Based on the artistic proposal of the author, the analysis and study of this pictorial genre has been considered, finding in nature its greatest source of inspiration.