La pintura naif como medio artístico representativo de las tradiciones y costumbres del Ecuador

Abstract

This research work entitled "Naif painting as an artistic medium representing the traditions and customs of Ecuador" addresses the loss of cultural values through the creation of paintings as artistic proposals that represent traditional scenes of identity and encourage enquiry and reflection by the viewer. Painting is a language, it has its own syntax, grammar and expression. Language serves to give form to thoughts, emotions and situations. All these contents are infinite, and remain in constant change. Likewise, Naif painting accurately represents the reality or nature in which we live by means of images and forms of figurative structure. Regarding the subject of study, in the Ecuadorian territory there are different cultures and ethnic groups that are distributed in the 4 provinces of the country, each village is differentiated by: practices, traditions, languages, clothing, music, art and gastronomy. The cultural variety is also popular as ancestral heritage, which has been passed down from generation to generation in our families since ancient times. However, disinterest has irreversible consequences, we learned new languages, idioms and adopted new identities. The face of Ecuadorian culture as we know it today is the result of cultural syncretism, which responds both to opposing heritages and to the cultural nuclei that survive from our native cultures. Cultural identity in Ecuador seeks to maintain its cultural heritage; each ethnic group has its own plurality, whether in terms of traditions, practices or cultural essence. Within Ecuador there is a plurality of civilizations that have a personal interest that has been respected over the years, many of these localities have been forced by habituation to the modern era and its technology and foreign idioms to produce new ways of life. However, many of them also live in regions of the country that are far removed from the culture and seek to maintain the plurality of their traditions and customs, thus enriching their own identity and inventing in a way that is rooted in a need to understand and maintain their rich heritage. From this information gathered from the research data on the subject, the result is disturbing for the future of traditions and practices where the future youth is building in this way, a habituation to other cultural patterns, sometimes superimposing foreign customs and modernisms. As a result of this situation, the need arose to create an artistic work that presents part of the customs and traditions of certain localities in the country. Naif painting was fully considered as the relevant artistic object to develop the proposal. The works and traditions serve as inspiration for the present initiative, in order to demonstrate how these manifestations and art are related to present a relevant message. In addition, the process that the artistic work has undergone will be shown, such as the graphic approaches, the production, the final edition and conclusions.