National Style Painting And Naturalistic Painting: An Analysis of Two Concepts In A Critique On El descubrimiento del pulque (1869)
Published 2021-10-02
Keywords
- Visual Culture,
- Verbal Language,
- Visual Language,
- Art Critique,
- 19th Century
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Abstract
The aim of this essay is to recover the definition of two concepts pertaining to the visual culture of the 19th century, specifically, that of the art critique in Mexico. Those concepts are national style painting and naturalistic painting. Both of them are used in the context of a critique of painting published in 1883 by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, a Mexican intellectual. Through the analysis of this text, and through the analysis of how its concepts refer to the formal resources of three paintings (El descubrimiento del pulque, chiefly, and Escenas de la vida de la virgen and La Sagrada familia), we came to the following conclusions: naturalistic painting, or painting inspired by nature, is defined by its objective representation of the world; in a strictly visual sense, this type of painting can be identified by its restraint. National style painting is the one that, thanks to its naturalistic approach, is able to capture the inherent beauty of Mexican themes. In terms of form and color, this kind of images corresponds to characters, landscapes and events that belong in secularist Mexican history, as well as to a visual restraint.
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