Ayacuchana painting, 1990s: Expressive continuity of traditions and testimonies in times of reconciliation and modernity

• Autor: Meza Untiveros, Miguel Angel
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe:article/28739
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/tesis/article/view/28739
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: pintura; academicismo; simbolismo; tradición; costumbre; painting; academicism; symbolism; tradition; custom

The visual artistic atmosphere in the 90s was very intense, the counterculture is very evident in the creation of modern works on an international level; Latin Americanism conceptualized by Ticio Escobar implies nationalism, imagenerism, and a hybrid state of the past, present and future, while in Peru a varied and spontaneous development between ideals and visual nostalgia is perceived. The Ayacucho region in the first half of the 90s maintained a suspicion in pictorial expression caused by the internal armed conflict, a condition that changed due to very important events, such as the capture of Abimael Guzmán. Ayacucho pictorial expressiveness at the beginning of this decade expresses traditional and testimonial compositions, the latter with some limitations, not only social political, but also restrictions on galleries and museums. On the other hand, in 1995, the “Plastic Arts Workshops and National Meeting of Schools of Fine Arts of Peru” were held, sponsored by UNESCO, a cultural event that opened institutional relations to improve and share learning experiences, with a focus on decentralizing Peruvian painting. In this sense, the following question is formulated. What does Ayacucho painting express in the decade of the 90s, in the midst of social, political and artistic changes locally, nationally and internationally? To answer the question, the works considered in this research will be studied and contrasted using a method of visual analysis that generates positions and criticality.