Propuesta artística sobre la sobrevivencia en tiempos de pandemia en El Guabo durante el primer semestre del 2020

Abstract

This research highlights the interest about a problem that greatly affects society, and that is to survive in times of Pandemic, at this time around the world the pandemic leaves its mark, impacting all social, economic and psychological areas that mark the life of human beings, confinement and the closing of borders gives way to a new lifestyle, in which prevention is part of daily life, adopting mechanisms that allow you to move forward in the face of adversity. Currently in Ecuador before the pandemic the population struggled to maintain stability in all areas of human endeavor, with the virus the crisis became notorious, many people were left without work and this affected Ecuadorian families, locally in El Cantón El Guabo, where he felt great discomfort due to the emergency measures, however, the great capacity that human beings have to get ahead coping with the changes brought by the health emergency and fight for a better future was evident. During the research process, pandemics have had their contribution to the development of society because the health crisis shows the weaknesses that health organizations have and therefore they begin to strengthen through the discovery of new drugs that help improve health . In art, the forms of expression are infinite but what was most noticed were the means that served to show artistic skills and the capacity for discernment in the proposals, we talked about social networks that served as digital platforms and that are used in a Timely against physical distancing and the closure of public events where there is an agglomeration of the public is prohibited. Oils, acrylics, watercolors or pencils were to name a few materials that were used to recreate the problem and in this sense, art addresses conflicts that surround us. The work of art arises from a critical gaze on the immediate environment and from our discernment about it; the pandemic in this case that becomes an event of critical gaze because it disrupts not only the economic or the social but also the affective becomes fragile in the face of the situations we go through in the face of human losses that unfortunately we had to see scenes where life human was not worth. This document collects this sentiment and addresses the problem from a methodological dynamic that is structured in four chapters for a better understanding. The first chapter talks about conceptualization, where the antecedents of the investigated topic and the maximum artistic references worldwide are discussed, it also deals with contextualization where there is data on the subject, but at a local national level. The second chapter is the definition of the work, where the technique that we will use to execute the work is detailed, as well as the theoretical foundation, its structure and the reason for making the work known is taken into account. The third chapter contains the visual part of the work, starting with sketches in pre-production, to then elaborate specific stages of the work's process in production and, in the final edition, the staging of the Work. The fourth chapter corresponds to the critical discussion on the function of the work, taking into consideration the critics of the authors; in which there is a work-viewer relationship.