ERNEST CHARTON Y LA RENOVACIÓN PICTÓRICA DEL SIGLO XIX ECUATORIANO. UNA APROXIMACIÓN ESTÉTICA Y ARTÍSTICA A CUATRO VISTAS DE GUAYAQUIL

Abstract

One of the main characteristics of the artistic context in Ecuador in the mid-nineteenth century is the complete absence of schools for this purpose, supplying this lack by learning, repetitive many times and with little variation, in the workshops. In addition and in what corresponds to painting, religious themes or portraits of aristocratic families, were the genres mostly practiced. However, it will be from the stays of the costumbrista painter Ernest Charton -in 1849 and from 1862 to 1864- or, from those of the romantic Edwin Church -in 1853 and 1857- in the country, which -very especially and in the first instance - will imply a resounding change in the plastic representation itself, by teaching new and more modern pictorial techniques to a whole generation of Ecuadorian artists. For this reason and in this work, the teaching exercised by Ernest Charton in this regard is exposed, as well as his important contribution and influence in the renewed plastic arts of Ecuador.