The artist in your work of art, your staff not only transposes conception of life, his sentiments and his longings; His frustrations, hopes and protests, but the village he is a member of and the ones belonging to the vital instant in than passes his daily newspaper existing, to whose roots same his exquisite sensibility deepens. Obeying the artistic evolution of a town, it is discovering the trajectory of his thinking and to feel through time and of the space. It is unraveling and to catch the distinctive elements than when comes apart the centuries, they have gone delineating your personality.

Every art is a vital expression. It is the realization of a powerful creative desire that exists in anima nobili. It is a concrete manifestation of the human spirit. The vitality of a town is expressed, then, in his creations; And there are few places in the world where this creative force is expressed more vividly than in the Cusco.

That way, the art that your teachers have created, is an own art than inspired in the European models and most of all, in your aboriginal roots, you do not know academic limits - and they keep on creating -: It is an art that enjoys in the desire of manifesting oneself with the whole luminous joy and buried humanism of this region of the Andes.

We should remember than the artistic indigenous tradition, he was firmly established long before the Spanish's arrival. The Peruvian ancients, our tutelary parents, they had attained a high degree of perfecting in the textile art, creating textiles of incomparable quality and beauty. The pre-Columbian ceramicses, they were beautifully modeled and decorated; And at metallurgy's field invalorables that the amazement and the conquerors' greed woke up created pieces. Chronicles also tell about the pieces of cloth and tie where they gathered the real successions, the warlike triumphs and the fascination for them ' brunette and millenarian gods that were governing your destination.

When in 1534, the Spanish established themselves in the Cusco they contributed a new political, cost-reducing way of life - ancient Capital City of the Tawantinsuyo -. Furthermore they introduced a new religion; And that way, between the first that get to the Peru, have missions that come to Christianize and to eradicate every link with the non-Christian past and bring along religious objects to catechize: Tangible and visible elements, all over paintings to transmit your message. In the XVIIth century, the sculptors began to get to the Cusco, painters, carvers and many other craftsmen that made a contribution I get a coarse artistic tradition, bursting in with her the Barroco's exuberance.

Of violent indigenous and European fusion of styles, entremezc1ándolos with the religious Spanish fervor and the ancestral native ritual, rise only, strong and vital, that artistic syncretism that one of her more successful manifestations has in the painting. The painting that, like express art ideas and represent objects by means of lines and colors on a surface, it was grown in Cusco in spectacular and surprising form. That way rise the named Escuela Cusqueña of Pintura, pristine manifestation and the most next to the only idea to represent the matter under spiritualized form.

With passing of the centuries, the Escuela Cusqueña of Pintura, of especial and unmistakable characteristics, alcanzógrandes provide for that native, of mixed racial ancestry and Indian, opportunistic disciples, the teachers made famous by depuration and quality in the technique of the painting became, than with typically autochthonous elements, constitute a field grade like esthetic expression unquestionably.

Of the fugacity of time and of oversight, we should rescue between many others, Gregorio Gamarra's, Lázaro Pardo's names of Ramos, Luis of Riaño, Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacahua, Basilio Pacheco, Diego Quispe Ttito, Lorenzo Sánchez, Juan Sapaca Inga, Antonio Huillca, Marcos Zapata, uncounted to the hundred ones belonging to excellent anonymous, urban and rural painters that lavished his work.

The Escuela Cusqueña of Pintura, constitute one of the most surprising manifestations than what it is creativity and the Andean artists' quality. You can say that again, she is an only manifestation inside the vast field of the universal arts.

Cusco's pictorial production, he filled of excellent grades works temples and convents, monasteries and residences of the whole viceroyalty of the Peru. 300 long years went from permanent production and the samples that are exhibited at the different temples, museums and particular collections in the whole Andean area and now at Europe, United States, they are the tangible and real expression than what art means in all its dimension cusqueño unquestionably.