Caracterización de la obra del maestro Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar y su relación con la formación socio humanística del Programa de Artes Visuales de la Universidad de Pamplona: Posibilidades para su articulación

Abstract

Appreciating the legacy of one of the most outstanding exponents of Latin American arts, from and to the academy, represents ethic and aesthetic values important to comprehensive education of citizens. In this sense, the current investigation project allows us to contextualize the work of the sculptor Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar and its significance to higher education in a contemporary globalized world. This project is intended to characterize the legacy of the work of the artist, in order to make possible its visibility and interaction with the social humanistic education subjects offered by the Visual Arts program at the University of Pamplona. Under a qualitative approach supported by content analysis essential aspects and features are described and interpreted, and so the social humanistic aspects that underlie the sculptural work of Master Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar, present in the city of Pamplona and looking for recognizing the contribution and importance that such cultural patrimony represents, tangible in the cultural life of the region, and besides, the conditions of the possibility to join those contents to the social humanistic subjects offered by the Visual Arts program. To that end, it was necessary to organize the records allowing the analysis of information, from six (6) sculptural works exhibited in the city of Pamplona, teachers’ opinions, and the contents of the social humanistic subjects offered by the Visual Arts program. The previous allows us to conclude that the findings of the current investigation transcend the academic field and permeate education of peoples and citizens conscious of their patrimonial values around the work of one of the artists who led the access of Colombian Arts into modernity: Ramirez Villamizar.