Art Of and From the New World during the Baroque Period.

1. Art Of and From the New World during the Baroque Period. By Sou Ortiz

2. Colonial Era (1525-1810) • was when European civilization and culture crossed the Atlantic to The Americas • gold and silver began to flow back to Europe, while church missionaries, Spanish conquistadors, and other European settlers, massively flowed into it. • It was only natural that the two cultures would influence one another.

3. The influence of Classical models • Indians were depicted in familiar classical god and goddesses like representation. • because gods and ancient beings were previously depicted from exotic lands, and the Americas was new and exotic to the Europeans in the Baroque era. • Hans Groenin’s Allegory of America 1610

4. European’s Personification and symbolism of America • depicted dark, wearing a feathered headdress, sometimes beads, elaborately tattooed, naked resembling uncivilized. • depicted with animals symbolic of the Americas, such as, iguana, armadillo, alligators, lizards. • Often times he is holding a spear with a jagged head or a bow and arrow to represent that he is war-like. • cannibalistic, in which artist would illustrate Indians holding severed body parts

5. The Noble Native American

6. Anti-Spanish Persuasion • Friar Bartolome de Las Casas in 1664 entitled Spanish Atrocities in Hispaniola • the first Caribbean region to be settled by Spaniard. • “Doomed Indians.” • obsessive cruelty and tyranny

7. Persuasive uses of European art done in New Spain • Jesuit father Diego de la Puente…when he was active in Peru between 1620-1663 • represents a fundamental aspect of the authority by means of which the Spanish came to dominate in New Spain.

8. Art From New Spain • Sebastian Lopez de Arteaga entitled, The Incredulity of St Thomas 1643. Done in Mexico. • The Chiaroscuro, and semi-nude Christ who’s in a calm stance with a sense of drama coming from his pale skin • Very European Baroque

9. Another example of colonial painting from Mexico • The Adoration of the Kings, 1655 • By Jose Juarez a Mexican-born artist • never went abroad but was a pupil of Arteaga who taught him the Baroque style

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