Adults only.

Latin American art is the result of a long-time combination of two different artistic  expressions: the one representing the world of the Native Americans and the one  introduced by the European colonizers.  

Even though this talk by Andres Bardon, will focus on the art of the former Spanish  territories, it will explain not only the keys to understanding its symbolic contents but  also will take us along a path of self-recognition as descendants of this rich, diverse,  and contradictory world of our own culture of the Americas.

1. Introduction  | Former Spanish Territories  | Transculturation 

2. Concepts about Art  | The metaphor  | The symbol 

3. Perception of art through history  | Magic and beliefs  | Comparison with the human eye  | Knowledge and conceptualization 

4. Theory of Systems, the Dialectic of Art  | Periods of Spanish Colonial Art  | Mannerism  | Baroque  | Rococo 

5. Image analysis

Andres Bardon, an expert in the history and sociology of art, has more than 25 years of experience in  the international art scene. He was Founder and Director of Arteclasica Contemporanea, one of the  most important art fairs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more than 15 years, he has promoted and  represented world-renowned Argentine artists. He was Founder and Director of Museum Magazine in  Argentina and has published numerous books in that country. Since 2012, Andres lives in the Houston  area and has served as Director of Special Projects and Representative for Latin America at the  Houston Fine Art Fair (HFAF). Currently, he is the owner and Creative Director of Art About, his design  studio and the President of Casa Cultural de las Americas, in Houston.