Latin American Artist: Affinities and coincidences regarding the ancestral, ritual, myths and symbols

Abstract

This paper emerged out of a research on Latin American art based on the idea of developing a historiographic approach and analysis on the subject "Latin American Artists:affinities similarities regarding the ancestral, rituals, myths, and symbols”, a critical reading that will provide information on local and international art with relevant material. It is fair to acknowledge the approach that many artists have about numen-related topics: archetypes, the ancestral world, rituals, magical thinking and other subjects, given the fact that in their artistic ideas or in their conceptualizations many artists agree on their will to resignify or recover echoes of pre-Columbian and prehistoric world. From an interdisciplinary approach with a methodological base and a new critical and bibliographical apparatuses, an attempt was made to delimit and contextualize the artwork of these artists as contemporary fetishes, which in their iconography involve phenomenological and conceptual remnants of the world of myth, magic and religion. The values of the fetish as an aesthetic, sacred, and devotional object, allow at the same time, the ritualization of mythic imagination. Lastly, some ideas about the work of art as symbolic and polysemic object, as well as its inclusion in the cultural dynamics are developed.

Keywords

• Historiography of art
• iconography
• art criticism
• ancestral world
• myth
• symbol