Guernica, the Chilean Social Uprising and a Rethinking of an Aesthetic The Artistic Rupture Proposed by Miguel Ángel Kastro’s Street Art
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This article is an aesthetic and symbolic reflection that takes artist Miguel Ángel Kastro’s revision of Guernica as its starting point. The analysis and its relevance within the 2019 social uprising in Chile will allow us to establish how certain works of art, considered canonical within Western art, can be re-read and recontextualized to express different urgencies and demands than those originally intended, within what some authors have called “art in flux.” Along these lines, the authors will briefly review the historical origins of Chilean street art as a history of a revisited canon and will explore how some of these expressions insert themselves within what is called a “post-historical art.” As a final heading, the article will reflect on what it means for Kastro’s work to be the frontispiece for the Museum of the Social Uprising in the Bellavista neighborhood of Santiago.
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