이베로아메리카의 화가 오스왈도 과야사민의 미학적 비밀.

Oswaldo Guayasamín, a painter from Ecuador, who was the successor of the mural movement started in Mexico, is also known as a writer who influenced the establishment of a modern nation-state in Latin America and the cultivation of a national identity based on indigenism. However, in the second half of the 20th century indigenism gradually lost its influence; at the same time that it was deconstructed, the mural movement and its metadiscourse about the nation, state, and ethnic identity, gained attention. In this process, Oswaldo Guayasamín the painter should become a painter of the past, and is still loved by many people. Basically, Guayasamín, as a basic form, uses human bones and skeletons which remain long after death; in the Mexican “Day of the Dead” tradition, it can be considered as the soul of a human. Also, human remains are materials that inevitably produce images of death or pessimism. When deep and dark emotions such as sadness and misery are expressed in the form of a skeleton, the viewer of paintings will sympathize with these feelings. These pessimistic feelings make the viewer feel compassion. There could be a variety of reasons to be addicted to this painter's paintings, such as the bizarre use of colors and the humorous expressions of the figures, which call for one’s attention. However, the case of Guayasamín suggests something more, as his paintings contain sadness and pain, even in the paintings express maternal love, but with a gloomy shadow. He also stated in various interviews that his paintings contained misery that he felt was necessary to express in his paintings. It would not be too much to say that his paintings are powerful because they let the people sympathize with the misery that he expressed. His works express a very Latin American panorama of emotions and situations, but paradoxically show that his artistry appeals to the universal emotions of humans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]