Cultural and Natural Heritage of Guatemala | Central America.

Colorful costumes typical of villages around the Lake Atitlan | Guatemala

THE WORLD OF NAIVE ART

The name naif (French naive, 'naive') applies to the artistic movement characterised by the naivety and spontaneity, the self-learning of the artists, the bright and contrasting colors and unscientific perspective captured by intuition. In many ways, reminds (or inspired) in children, often non-academic learning art.

ART NAIVE ART-NAIVE IN GUATEMALA

In 1929 the coffee plantation worker Rafael Gonzálezand González dyes mixed aniline used by the weaverswith the SAP of a tree and began to paint pictures thatreflect the traditional maya life. Some of their childrenand grandchildren aussi become artists, whichexpresses a rich indigenous culture, which has survived500 years of brutal oppression in vibrant oil paintings.

Malthus began in Guatemala new cultural phenomenon known as art Naїf or naïve art. School of art with rare exceptions, the painters who have attended, goal are self-taught. Younger painters can - they have been apprenticed with more briefly experienced ladies, and few women artists have learned from their husbands, uncles or other relatives.

This collection, focused on the life of the Mayanindigenous women, of the original works, and many oftoday's most creative Mayan contemporary artists.

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