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Monumentos y Esculturas

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a escultura popular es un oficio heredado y trasformado por<br />

generaciones. Cobra vida desde lo insospechado: barro, piedra,<br />

chatarra, troncos, materiales orgánicos y desperdicios.<br />

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Popular sculpture is a skill inherited and transformed for<br />

generations. It comes to life from the unsuspected: clay, stone,<br />

scrap metal, logs, organic materials, and scrap material.<br />

El escultor popular es conocido también como imaginero: Su trabajo<br />

se basa en la imaginación y la memoria. Tiene desarrollados los<br />

sentidos de la vista y el tacto de manera muy diestro.<br />

La escultura popular representa la identidad de los pueblos: sus amores<br />

y miedos, sus pasiones, la tradición oral y los seres mitológicos nunca<br />

vistos pero imaginados, creados por ellos, sus héroes. En ella, la<br />

transformación de la materia no depende de cánones estéticos; en los<br />

personajes populares en máscaras y esculturas de pequeño formato,<br />

perviven los siglos de imaginación que agregan uno a uno rasgos.<br />

En El Salvador, existen varias tradiciones de escultura popular: desde<br />

las pequeñas figuras modeladas en barro en Ilobasco, hasta los<br />

deslumbrantes seres de chatarra de Atiquizaya. La madera cobra vida<br />

por diferentes rumbos: desde lo santo, con su resabio colonial, hasta<br />

lo profano: con la risa y el miedo.<br />

The popular sculptor is also known as “imaginero” (he who creates<br />

from images, in colloquial Savadorean speech): His work is based on<br />

imagination and memory. He has developed the senses of sight and<br />

touch very sharply.<br />

Popular sculpture represents the identity of the people: their loves and<br />

fears, their passions, oral tradition and mythological beings, unseen<br />

but imagined, created by them, their heroes. In it, the transformation<br />

of matter does not depend on aesthetic canons; in the popular<br />

characters in masks and small sculptures, centuries of imagination live<br />

out, adding features one to one.<br />

In El Salvador, there are several popular traditions of sculpture. From the<br />

small figures modeled in clay in Ilobasco, to the dazzling scrap beings<br />

of Atiquizaya. The wood comes alive in different directions; from the<br />

holy, with its colonial relic, to the profane with laughter and fear.<br />

Don Quijote. Figura recurrente en la escultura del Atiquizayense Melara Farfán.<br />

Don Quixote. Recurring figure Atiquizayan sculpture Melara Farfán.<br />

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