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Utilizamos aquí la palabra en plural (realismos) para destacar el hecho de que en el arte boliviano actual se manifiestan muy diversos tipos de obras que tienen en común un énfasis en la representación más o menos fideligna de personas, objetos y lugares concretos de la realidad visible con el propósito de que sean fácilmente reconocidos.
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We use here the word in plural (realisms) to highlight the fact that in current Bolivian art many diverse types of works appear that have in common an emphasis upon a more or less creditable representation of people, objects and concrete places in visible reality with the intent that these be easily recognizable.
ACADEMIC "REALISM" An esthetic offering that follows stylistic objectives based on theories, techniques and themes put forth by European painting in the second half of the 19th Century. This possibility includes descriptive genres such as the still life as well as landscapes executed in an Impressionist manner. CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS Esthetic proposals that give priority to the re-presentation of customs and traditional scenes of different regions of the country. The customs range from simple daily activities to rituals and ceremonies of great significance within a particular region. This genre painting especially takes as its theme aspects of cultures that are in the process of extinction or that have already been lost. Because of this the proposal of valuing these cultures or of recovering them can be detected in the work. In several works the sentiment of nostalgia or a yearning for the past is perceived, in other works a taste for representing the simplicity and poverty of the people, in others a taste of lament. MAGIC REALISM Esthetic offerings that present absolutely impossible events integrated in a quotidian setting that confers a plausible character to the events, or, if you like, unexpected events that bring to the quotidian a character of imminent magic. The frontiers between reality and fantasy weaken. The confrontation of diverse cultures (19th Century European, pre-Columbian indigenous , "Mestizo" or mixed race, modern international, etc.) as well as the myths and popular beliefs of each of these cultures work as generators of impossible, or rather, fantastic relationships. In contrast to Surrealism, which (from its French etymology) alludes to a reality above daily reality, Magic Realism puts forth the idea that the palpably real (the here and now, not the unconscious) is the truly fantastic.
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