Face, gesture and art

In this work, art and science move in parallel conditions, a scenario that allows us to analyse the relationship between some of the archetypes of Carl Jung's theory and the work of the Ecuadorian painter Luigi Stornaiolo. Delving into the theory of archetypes to find an answer to the gesture of the face and the gestures of the body, allows us to identify and explore their influence on the visual arts. Moreover, it allows us to understand ourselves and others in a relationship through artistic language. Thus, Stornaiolo's work, due to its symbolic value, allows us to propose an interpretation of the characters as metaphors of human existence from a critical point of view. This book is aimed at professionals in artistic representation as a means of revealing the emotional states of the human being, in which the gesture of the face and gestures acquire prominence, as they are the communicational instruments that allow us to characterise human emotions in all periods and societies. To do so, it starts from the enunciation of the theory of the collective unconscious and the concept of archetype and its relationship with gesture and gesturality in Stornaiolo's work.

Autorentext

José Cela (Cañar, 1951) studierte Bildende Kunst an der Universidad Central del Ecuador. Er erwarb einen Master-Abschluss in Kunstwissenschaften. Seit 1987 ist er Professor für künstlerische Anatomie und künstlerisches Zeichnen an der Kunstfakultät der U.C.E., wo er Hauptprofessor, Direktor der Abteilung für plastische Künste, Prodekan und Dekan war.