Post 8 - A subject you enjoyed studying this term

Well, a subject that I'm interested in the most this semester was Colonial Arts. The development of western art in the conquered lands by the Spanish and Portuguese crowns until the republican period.

The most fascinating thing is the encounter of two cultures/peoples, and what was the result of this in terms of art.

It is fascinating to study and research colonial arts because there are so many different theories and views about that encounter of cultures.

But when something is fascinating, it is tragic at the same time though, because this encounter was a truly genocide and ethnocide against indigenous tribes in the American continent during the first part of the encounter. Now even this happen, artists or artisans that created many of the colonial art were people of that indigenous culture, or mestizos.

Consequently, they created an art in lin with the his masters' rules, but with the touches of millenial cultures like the Azteca peoples or Inca peoples.

The European culture was not just taking over the native culture, but we can see an overlapping process of the native culture also resisting and trying to express their world view through western artistic tools.