Arte y pandemia en el ámbito local

Abstract

The present research work called "The artistic production in times of pandemic in Machala", is directed to the analysis of the artistic position at the beginning and during the Covid 19 pandemic, and to the acceptance of the population in general. Within the content of the document, information will be found about the artistic production of the city of Machala after the Covid 19 pandemic, and the text will briefly show the history and evolution of painting, and historical reviews about pandemics that have affected the world throughout the years, and how the Covid 19 pandemic has affected the Machala population and its artistic production. The painting captures a reality of events that happen in our social environment, where the artist works his works that transmit directly and indirectly to the viewer giving a message of a social reality. Art has allowed to evidence every moment on the history of pandemics, painting has been the artistic medium to evidence its development, where the artist has reflected their emotions, feelings, thoughts, criticism of various social issues, you can reflect that painting is a tool to question a reality. As for the development of the proposal was raised from the artistic point of view, on, as the capital of the province of El Oro, Machala, has been the most affected within the province, after the presence of this virus, causing deaths and irreparable economic losses for many people. Using as a symbolic element the Hospital Teófilo Dávila, being this a central axis as for the pandemic Covid 19, a proposal of pictorial character was realized, demonstrating that the art in spite of the circumstances, sufferings and events that they present, never will stop manifesting and continuing demonstrating every moment or situation that the human being suffers in his environment, it is so this proposal gives to know this situation, that the art continues manifesting in spite of the adversities presented at the moment. This work was developed with the intention that art grows and does not decay showing through it a research product that aims to conclude by technological means due to the quarantine presented this year, which was done through a virtual presentation through the social network such as Facebook, for the surrounding society and that this work interacts with the viewers on the subject presented, this being a source of inspiration for artists, where a problem that so far continues to cause losses was made known. It is required that there is more artistic production in the city of Machala, that it evidences this problem that continues overwhelming us inside the present time, and that it will continue being witnessed until a suitable medicine exists to control this pandemic, meanwhile the art should continue dating presence to demonstrate to many people that they go through this disease, not to feel alone, that each situation that is crossed, was shaped in the history, and that with the help of the art, the feelings and expressions, witnessed were marked forever in the society.