r a n d y   a k e r s
 
  • home
  • large paintings
  • small paintings
  • shelter paintings
  • bio
  • statement
  • exhibitions
  • contact
  • blog
  • links

ecuador and the amazon

5/31/2015

0 Comments

 
Picture
We just returned from an eye-opening trip to Ecuador and the Amazon. It has brought welcomed inspiration to my work and filled my head with new shapes and historical perspectives previously undiscovered. I am still grappling with all that we saw and did.

Of particular note is the very early pre-Columbian art with simple cubist forms that was exhibited at the Casa del Alabado Museum housed in a beautifully renovated 17th century building. Ecuador has a long tradition of Art (with meanings buried in religion and spirituality) that drives the culture. It surrounds the environment and is pervasive in daily life, from the foods to the ecosystem. There is such a study in contrasts from the old and the new to the corporate and the primitive. Somehow these ideologies find a common path to exist peacefully side-by-side, perhaps more so than we are used to in the United States. Historically it was not always so, with the early Spanish conquest and the continuing struggle of the Indigenous peoples. Now the mix produces a culture and people that is a powerful blend of traditions, religions, and art.


0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    November 2019
    September 2019
    July 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    September 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    March 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    April 2017
    December 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    January 2015
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014

    RSS Feed