Lugares comunes, del cuerpo y sus retratos. Presencia y representaciones de mujeres artistas contemporáneas en América Latina

Abstract

Establising and producing in the future a process of creation that is coherent and consistent with the historical, social and cultural context that surrounds it, without excluding or ignoring the references related to different visual languages, typical of the contemporary artistic manifestations of women in Latin America , and which is also a reflection of the aceptance aesthetic and expressive needs inherent in a way of perceiving and representing the female body. It was necessary to direct this process in the light of a reflection as a conclusion of a theoretical investigation that determines its conceptual, historical, and artistic references. As a result of the question guided this process referred to the extent in which the artistic manifestations of the Visual Arts in postmodernity, for the case of some female artists in Latin America, reflect possible forms of identity, their existence and its representation from the body in its different connotations? Throughout each chapter a brief but significant description about the vision of the feminine gender and the different aesthetic representations from painting to the appearance and development of photography. Later, some very valuable contributions were collected that value and criticize the feminine presence in art and the concept of beauty from a conventional historical view.Therefore, the meaning of this research was punctually directed to analyze the artistic manifestations of the visual arts in postmodernity, in the case of some women artists in Latin America, who reflect possible forms of identity, their presence and their representation, from the body in its different connotations. This is why the methodology of descriptive documentary analysis allowed the description, recording, analysis and interpretation of the current nature, the understanding of the body as a social construction and of identities from the interpretation in the artistic production of contemporary women. As a conclusion, it was fundamental to emphasize essentially the meeting points or Common Places found from such interpretations. Thistle in the reason that the place given to the female body should be exalted in what corresponds to the territory of its confidence, since in it arise elements specific to its deepest experiences and feelings. In the same way, it has been a space reserved and granted to women in a natural way exclusively, and indeed, to fulfill their duty to be, in terms of their social responsibility. This criterion is recurrent in the history of women or their representations, also for the case of Latin America and of course from the thematic analysis made to the artistic manifestations related in this work. In this way, the first nude understood as a primary action of self-recognition, which includes symbolic codes of the context, sensuality, eroticism, space in which various subjectivities operate and establish individual and collective experiences that translate into multiple aesthetic languages. Becoming a recurrent and essential resource, for this case in women artists who build their work from traditional practices and those that resort to more avant-garde trends. Then, the nude can become a form of reappropriation of itself.