La pintura mural como medio de expresión integral en el proceso de inclusión de los sectores con diversidad funcional

Abstract

The present research work is called Mural painting as a means of integral expression in the process of inclusion of sectors with functional diversity. Aims to generate various reflections in society on the importance of inclusion in the development of daily life. For this proposal, the mural painting was chosen as the artistic expression capable of achieving the proposed objectives, due to the advantage of being exposed in the urban space and being able to achieve a more direct dialogue with society. In Ecuador, public policies have been generated for the benefit of several vulnerable sectors of society, including disability, considering that they continue to be excluded from several productive sectors today. The labor, academic and cultural sector still has several deficiencies, with respect to the incorporation of elements that favor inclusion as a whole; therefore, all countries of the world have an obligation to facilitate public access and participation, with appropriate technology and at no additional cost, integration into the cultural sector. The premise that art causes changes and generates links with society is not alien, it has been reflected through several historical events, this is its way of contributing and provoking social transformations through its members. The urban space through mural painting is the canvas par excellence for the promotion of inclusion, it is a tool that allows potentiating the possibilities of interaction with the receiving public. Mural painting in the same way, throughout history, has evolved to what we know today. From the first manifestations on the archaic walls of caves such as those of Lascaux, southwest of France and Altamira in Spain in the Paleolithic period, to the revolution of Mexican muralism that became the artistic movement that marked the modern art of Ibero-American plastic arts. The expressions on walls of the Egyptian civilization, the mural painting in the Far East in the year 1700 BC.C., the iconographic representations of Ancient Greece with concepts that are cultivated until today, the transcendental murals of the Mesoamerican and pre-Columbian pre-Hispanic cultures, and as a relevant point of the classical era, the works that emerged in the Renaissance period with tempera and fresco works are some of the expressions that they have laid the foundations for the muralism we know today. In the compositional elements of the central work of the project, elements such as the tree of life, children with functional diversity, and the main axis of the work, the textual phrase the essential is invisible to the eyes, are integrated, the same that is translated into sign language and Braille literacy. This is intended to generate reflections towards a path of awareness and social inclusion for this sector of the population, it is a latent problem that, despite being addressed institutionally, is not evident in society through daily practice. The relevant message aims to generate various reflections on disability for passers-by, taking advantage of the environment and the direct dialogue that this content has with the viewer. Once the processes of pre-production and production of the artistic proposal have been completed, the work will be exhibited and disseminated through social networks, they will be the transport of connection between the work and the public to receive the greatest number of perceptions about the proposal that allow us a better development of the critical approach. Special emphasis has been placed on focusing this research work on this sector of society, due to the lack of initiatives and projects that seek true inclusion, and because through art, we can appeal to the sensitivity of a society that needs to create interdisciplinary links that improve the quality of life of people with functional diversity.