Significado cultural y estético actual de las esculturas de los siglos XVI y XVII de Pamplona de Indias

Abstract

The work of art as an object that gives us knowledge of a time and a reality, it becomes a support that attaches particular meanings to the material and spiritual dimension of a culture, given its "symbolic value and quality means". Which makes it in a text and a window of a whole cultural memory, which let you approach from the interdisciplinary vision, concepts and reasons for it was created and to the ways this is consumed and read it. Therefore, we have carried out a study of the artistic imagery of Pamplona de Indias, in two of his main works: a sculpture of the Christ of Humilladero and the sculpture of the Niño Huerfanito, in order to identify through the cultural consumption of art and the religious practices of the cultural significance and the aesthetic available on these works of art of religious nature is currently, generated in this city. In addition, apply instruments of information-gathering for the population 45 to 70 years on these images to understand how the historical and cultural events have contributed in the way as the spectator Pamplona connotes aesthetically the work of sculptural art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and thus create awareness of the cultural value of the religious images and how these have been instrumental in forging the identity of the people of Pamplona. The results of this study reveal that the cultural meaning and aesthetic that gives the population of Pamplona de Indias to these works, it is influenced by a religious concept, a product of the educational and cultural training that received Pamplona people during the first years of its life in the New World.