Reflections on the Forms and Arrangements of Surface Images in the Art of <i>Barniz de Pasto,</i> from the 16th to the 19th Century
Flowers, branches, birds, animals, a diversity of geometric combinations and varied scenes create, with great care, an exquisite and delightfully ornamented world. Among symmetries, proportions, chromatic sense, and repeated figures, themes between the sacred and the profane are set and arranged in...
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| description | Flowers, branches, birds, animals, a diversity of geometric combinations and varied scenes create, with great care, an exquisite and delightfully ornamented world. Among symmetries, proportions, chromatic sense, and repeated figures, themes between the sacred and the profane are set and arranged in the artistic surfaces of <i>barniz de Pasto</i>. My reflection is aimed at knowing in greater depth the marvelous creations that the <i>barniz de Pasto</i> painters elaborated in the cultural environment of San Juan de Pasto and San Francisco de Quito, by exploring that visual world, which is part of a group of objects made by overlapping layers of membrane to define figures with the presence of silver leaf, in which a significant relief is generally evident. Understanding how the figures were arranged on the surface of the objects, how they were organized, and what system of composition and other possible artistic resources to control the surfaces existed, leads me to consider that the craftsmen had a similar training to that given in the field of the Spanish painter in several of its modalities. Some of the most noted examples of this <i>neogranadino</i> art will be used as examples. I reflect on three examples from different periods and very different in their configuration: a casket, a cabinet, and a tray, all decorated with <i>barniz de Pasto</i> and with different compositional challenges for the artist. Rather than the physical–mechanical use of materials and supports, I focus on the syntax of the image and the techniques used in the organizational structure and its processes, finding that there were ways of organizing the elements in a specific space and that these came from professional practices associated mainly with painting. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-74cc9559b3744353a615abac44d8c81b2023-11-18T19:34:42ZengMDPI AGHeritage2571-94082023-07-01675424544110.3390/heritage6070286Reflections on the Forms and Arrangements of Surface Images in the Art of <i>Barniz de Pasto,</i> from the 16th to the 19th CenturyMaría del Pilar López Pérez0Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Faculty of Arts, National University of Colombia, Bogotá 111321, ColombiaFlowers, branches, birds, animals, a diversity of geometric combinations and varied scenes create, with great care, an exquisite and delightfully ornamented world. Among symmetries, proportions, chromatic sense, and repeated figures, themes between the sacred and the profane are set and arranged in the artistic surfaces of <i>barniz de Pasto</i>. My reflection is aimed at knowing in greater depth the marvelous creations that the <i>barniz de Pasto</i> painters elaborated in the cultural environment of San Juan de Pasto and San Francisco de Quito, by exploring that visual world, which is part of a group of objects made by overlapping layers of membrane to define figures with the presence of silver leaf, in which a significant relief is generally evident. Understanding how the figures were arranged on the surface of the objects, how they were organized, and what system of composition and other possible artistic resources to control the surfaces existed, leads me to consider that the craftsmen had a similar training to that given in the field of the Spanish painter in several of its modalities. Some of the most noted examples of this <i>neogranadino</i> art will be used as examples. I reflect on three examples from different periods and very different in their configuration: a casket, a cabinet, and a tray, all decorated with <i>barniz de Pasto</i> and with different compositional challenges for the artist. Rather than the physical–mechanical use of materials and supports, I focus on the syntax of the image and the techniques used in the organizational structure and its processes, finding that there were ways of organizing the elements in a specific space and that these came from professional practices associated mainly with painting.https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/6/7/286<i>barniz de Pasto</i>painterornamentcompositionorganizational structure<i>mopa-mopa</i> |
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| title | Reflections on the Forms and Arrangements of Surface Images in the Art of <i>Barniz de Pasto,</i> from the 16th to the 19th Century |
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| title_short | Reflections on the Forms and Arrangements of Surface Images in the Art of <i>Barniz de Pasto,</i> from the 16th to the 19th Century |
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