Abstract

AVALOS FLOREZ, Édison Duván. From the laboratory to the museum. The change in the indigenous representation proposed by Camilo Egas. Ñawi [online]. 2024, vol.8, n.1, pp.47-57. ISSN 2588-0934.  https://doi.org/10.37785/nw.v8n1.a3.

The painting Las floristas indias, by Camilo Egas, changed the representation of the indigenous in the plastic arts of Ecuador. Before that painting, the indigenous, from positivism, was objectified until erasing the traces that revealed their subjectivity. After this painting, the representation of the indigenous, in a naturalistic conception, was endowed with a social context, a geographical landscape and a historical development. However, this new representation, under the influence of 'social realism', degenerated into a reprehensible representation.

Keywords : Las floristas indias; Camilo Egas; indigenous representation; costumbrismo; indigenismo; social realism.