Art

["Hugo Revuelta Santa Cruz" <camina@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>]

Hello artists:
I found this text in a bolivian bilingual web page, and would like to share
these views with you all. http://www.fundesart.org/femenino.html

"In Bolivia there currently exist two diametrically opposed esthetic
possibilities, both put in practice and explored in the most part by women.
One is artists that cultivate traditional feminine themes, and the other,
artists whose interests lie in a sharp analysis of the body, of the feminine
condition, and of the sexual roles within society.

FEMININE THEMES

Esthetic proposals that accept and assume the role that has been placed on
women in a traditional male-dominated society, related to qualities such as
sensitivity, romanticism, lyricism, love of children, family and home. They
are artists that extend their acceptance of the "feminine" role to the field
of the arts, which creates as consequence a particular type of work.
Characteristic of this category are delicate floral and still-life themes,
children, women with a melancholic "air", and curiously, the female nude.

FEMININE ARGUMENTS MASCULINE ARGUMENTS
Esthetic offerings that refer to the human body, male-female relationships,
love, and even the role of the artist in the present time proposing an
analysis and reformulation of the masculine/feminine in art and by
extension, in society. They are artists who, far from accepting the
traditional role that society tries to impose, and far as well from seeking
refuge in a subject-less art (such as abstract art), take on as theme the
masculine/feminine from a critical perspective. Approaches arise that are
able to call into question traditional values be it through provoking a
reformulation of roles or through using irony to look at topics apparently
totally understood in a conservative society."

Regards,

Hugo/Bolivia