DÉBORA ARANGO, A REFERENCE OF EXPRESSIONISM AND FEMINISM IN COLOMBIAN ART

Abstract

Débora Arango has been recognized as one of the most outstanding artists in Colombian art of the 20th century. Although her work is currently considered an important reference point for the emergence of the avant-garde notion in Colombia, between the decades of the 30's and 70's in which the most significant part of her production was gestated, paradoxically she was condemned to invisibility. and censorship. Due, on the one hand, to the critical and incisive approach of his approaches to hegemonic aspects such as: religion, politics and society; themes and positions that were not considered typical of a woman, going beyond gender conventions and, on the other hand, her highly expressionist technical management and transgressor of academic values.

In this article, mention will be made of some relevant biographical aspects, the critical treatment given to his work from its invisibility to its recognition and also the iconographic and critical background of some of his works.