Historia de la imagen corporal del niño en la pintura de artistas colombianos:1950-1970

Abstract

The present investigation reviews the conceptions against the corporal image of childhood in the Modern Age in Colombia, understood from 1950 to 1970, through the works of Colombian plastic artists such as: Alejandro Obregón, Fernando Botero, Beatriz González, Margarita Lozano, Hernando Tejada, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo, Enrique Grau, Emma Reyes, among others, who were part of the artistic movements that will be developed in the chapters that make up the document. It is worth highlighting this period as a transitional space in the artistic history of the country due to the new ways in which it begins to understand, capture and recreate the local unlike other parallel currents, which will develop their own aesthetics. Thus, the investigation goes into several of the plastic tendencies of the time such as: Abstract art, Figurativism and Pop art, understanding how from there the artist perceived the body of the boy and the girl and the importance that was formed on them. In this measure, the research is approached from the historical-documentary method based on authors such as Peter Burke, Philippe Ariès and Zandra Pedraza Gómez, taking into account categories such as: Childhood, Art, Body, Culture and History, as transversal axes with which It is intended to make an objective and analytical review through the collection and systematization of 24 works published in this artistic period.