TIGUA ART

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Whether you call it Folk art, Outsider art, Visionary art, Self-taught art, Primitive art, Intuitive art, Naïve art...it doesn’t really matter, we know what you mean. The art is pure; the artists are outside the mainstream and have no training. The work is strangely appealing and not always pretty – but it is fresh, colorful, honest, and personal. Tigua is a collection of small communities southwest of Quito. Most of the people here farm the mountain slopes and valleys, herding sheep and llamas and growing their crops on the patchwork of steep, windswept fields. Tigua artists are deeply bound to the land. Even the most successful painters still plant and harvest their own fields of potatoes, beans, and grains.