Cuentos de casa by Diego Rondón Almuelle: Illustration as an Artistic Category

A Brief Approach

Abstract

The present work is an analysis from the perspective of the art history of the book album titled Cuentos de casa by the peruvian artist Diego Rondón Almuelle, who is one of the most important graphic artists of the early 21st century. He was part of the Pandemia group, a collective of graphic artists from the city of Arequipa who made publications that circulated in Lima during the early 2000s. This work links to a previous analysis of Rondón”™s work entitled La fantasia tenebrosa en the graphic novel by Diego Rondón Almuelle (2014) and, in addition, seeks to expand the studies of graphic art history in Peru.

For this purpose, the article starts from a brief reflection on the concept of illustration and its communication capacity. Next, we will go on to the artistic analysis of two illustrations selected from the entire album book, due to the fact that they meet plastic characteristics that clearly express the author”™s conceptual proposals. In this way, it seeks to demonstrate the artistic nature of graphic illustration and how it can be approached from the perspective of art history.