Abstract

CASTILLERO QUESADA, Soledad. Art, Builder of Essentialism: Andalusian Woman and Society, Myth and Archetype. Valenciana [online]. 2024, vol.17, n.33, pp.253-277.  Epub May 31, 2024. ISSN 2007-2538.  https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v16i33.754.

When we hear the term “Andalusian woman”, we are automatically going to visualize a series of characteristics (and not others) that are going to correspond with a visual ideal pattern model. In this conformation, art has a fundamental pillar. From different currents and spheres such as painting, cinema, music or literature, we attend to the construction of a character where the essence is reduced to a mythical plane, discarding the own identity of the represented women. In the following article we are going to explain how the construction of this ideal of the Andalusian woman is reductionist, and therefore rejects the identity of the women represented. This will help us to understand how the impact not only resides in the aesthetic conception, but in the cultural conception and therefore its acceptance or rejection in the different planes of socio-political life.

Keywords : Art; gender; myth; culture; Andalusia.