Crafts

MACHU PICCHU. The 8th Wonder of the World!!!

PERU Culture & Tradition

FOLK ART IN PERU

Peru boasts one of the longest varieties of arts and crafts on earth, as observed by the growing chain of exporting each year exhibiting the skill of Peruvian craftsmen in Europe, Asia and North America. The diversity, color, creativity and multiple functions of Peruvian folk art become a fundamental activity not only for the identity of the Peruvian culture, but also as a way of life for millions of families and even entire communities, such as Sarhua and Quinoa in Ayacucho, Puno and Cuzco.

Works of art, both large and small, are admired in both Peruvian and foreign, are steeped in centuries of history, full of forms and pre-Hispanic symbols which were merged with others brought by the Spanish. Peru has forged a multiple and complex identity which is paradoxically one of the reasons why Peruvian arts and crafts tend to be innocent, thus leaving a touch of naivete in their work.

The excellence of Peruvian artisans can be seen in the harmony of the geometric designs in fabric, pictures of a minute in the life of peasant agriculture calls burilados carved pumpkins, the mixing or blending of cultures that were kept in the colorful retablo . There are also finely carved in stone sculptures Huamanga, the natural complex Baroque wood carvings, the beauty of gold and silver relics and the many forms of pottery made of clay.

These works are just some of the cultural manifestations of a people who communicate mainly through art, using a language whose fundamental aspects are abundance, fertility and confidence in the future.