Art and Covid-19. Thematic approaches and predominant images of the pandemic

Abstract

The main objective of this text is to carry out a conceptual analysis of the thematic aspects addressed about Covid-19 in the artistic practices carried out during this period. And, consequently, to study how the pandemic has been represented and what images, understood as iconographic motifs or visual metaphors, have been generated from the experience of it.To do this, from an inductive and critical point of view, first of all, we focus on the search for the artistic proposals produced throughout the different stages of this crisis, analyzing which aspects have been the most treated and under what approaches. Fact that enables us, on the one hand, to systematize the main thematic routes and, on the other, to compare the results obtained with the contributions of various experts from philosophy, anthropology, sociology, etc. This has allowed us to draw the pertinent conclusions by extracting the predominant images of the pandemic whose meanings will contribute to shaping its visual imaginary.