Hemerografía, gráfica y paz en los comienzos del siglo XX colombiano

Hemerography, graphics and peace at the beginning of the Colombian 20th century

Abstract

The Colombian hemerography of the 20th century is characterized by its warlike character. Newspapers were a combat weapon in electoral campaigns, giving continuity to the war of the 19th century through politics. However, there was a part of the national hemerography, that of the graphic arts, which proposed a different alternative: that of peace. These were El Gráfico, Cromos and Revista Universidad. Magazines available for: cartoonists, painters, caricaturists, illustrators, photographers, etc. Through them, another country is perceived, different from that of political confrontation and social deprivation; lighter, more livable and interesting. An art divorced from the State, which is not interested in the use of art for the development of national culture. What would have happened to Colombian art if there had not been the media we have addressed, which discovered, welcomed and recognized them? This is the question that haunts the spirit of this article