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Felipe Guaman De Ayala's Drawings and the Wider Purpose behind Them
Summary: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala illustrates desire for a reformation of the colonial system through an effective way of communicating his ideas, mostly through pictures, in his 1,200 letter to the King of Spain.
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala was an ethnic Andean, deeply inspired by the injustice of the colonial regime, he wrote a massive manuscript in 1615 about the history of the Inca Empire to the King of Spain. His masterpiece includes 1,200 pages, of which 398 were images full of details, that are clearly considered by the artist to be the most direct and effective way of communicating his ideas to the audience. Felipe de Ayala focused on the conflicts between the settlers and the natives to reveal, in his powerful drawings, his wider purpose of a desire for a colonial reformation that will bring stability and justice to the Andean people. Two major reasons that motivated Ayala to write the manuscript are broadly seen in his drawings: the first is the mistreatment towards him and the second is a more direct discrimination of the native Andeans.
The first major reason for...
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