Análisis crítico de la praxis artística de Nelson Román. Décadas de 1969 y 1979

Abstract

This thesis work is aimed at the critical analysis of the artistic praxis of Nelson Román, who together with his group Los Cuatro Mosqueteros burst into the Ecuadorian plastic arts with new visual proposals. In this way, a historical research was carried out to understand the social, political, economic and cultural context of Ecuador between 1930 and 1970, in order to understand the changes in aesthetics and discourses promoted by his paintings. At the same time, it was necessary to use an approximate analysis of the discourse present in the visual language of his works, where semiotics and hermeneutics mediated as a bridge for the analysis of the set of codes that derive from the social and ideological position of the artist. Likewise, a chronological survey of his creations was carried out, to then perform a critical, iconographic and iconological analysis of his artistic praxis, in which the most recurrent traces and symbols were extracted for their interpretation. Likewise, an attempt was made to highlight the symbolic, aesthetic and ideological universe in his relationship with color and graphic and aesthetic resources used by the artist to compose his language of rupture as well as of approach to the primitive, having as a base his ugly and figurative style in which he tries to conceptualize the ideas of resistance, authenticity and irony.