Análisis de la importancia del premio Luis Caballero, en publicaciones de medios de comunicación colombianos a partir de 1996 al 2020.

Abstract

The Luis Caballero Award is an event of the plastic and visual arts that has been held in Colombia since 1997 and, is part of the district program of stimuli for culture of the District Institute of the Arts, IDARTES. Since its creation, the award is listed as the most important recognition given to artists in the country. Nevertheless, the arguments thatsupport its current prestige are not entirely clear. Hence, this monograph addressed the question about the importance of the Luis Caballero Award, with the main objective of establishing the reasons why this stimulus has obtained such recognition in the Colombian artistic circuit. For this, a qualitative methodology of explanatory and descriptive scope was proposed, based on the information collected about the origin and importance of the award, in Colombian media, through the Google and Google Scholar databases. This research was carried out according to a historiological design and, of tabulation and interpretation of the studied documentation. According to the analysis carried out, it is concluded that the reasons that justify the importance of the award respond to the characteristics of the structure it exhibits, the influence it has on national art, its status, its unique character within arts events. plastic arts of the country and its twenty-five-year trajectory. Finally, the importance of the Luis Caballero Award can be evaluated by analyzing the contribution of the aforementioned categories to the field of national art.