THE BAROQUE SUBVERSION OR OF CASTE PAINTING

The construction of memory is not static but in movement, in such a way that the Caste Paintings can exemplify a changing reality at the same time that we observe the transformations in the way we understand them. Nowadays, these profane paintings are beginning to acquire relevance to the extent of representing the “ultra-baroque” or late baroque, a kind of irony that, as William Taylor suggested, is part of the rebellions of the Latin American baroque.

In addition to this historiographical perspective, some fundamental elements for its understanding have been incorporated into this work: the “discovery of the people”, the iconography of the Holy Family and the desire for dark skin. Thus, it concludes with the analysis of more than five hundred paintings of castes that are in the platform coordinated by Professor Jaime Humberto Borja Gómez, through the ARCa Project Colonial Painting in the Americas.