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Retablos
Retablos or behind altars are devotional small paintings, typically made on tin or copper, which are made after moments of adversity or miracles to give thanks for divine protection. They are a later interpretation of traditional Spanish ex-votos which were extravagant Catholic commissioned works ranging from chapels to religious statue adornments. The retablo form of ex-votos resulted form Spanish colonization as they attempted to teach Catholicism to the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The hybridization of these traditions created a large variation of retablo styles influenced by different Latin American cultures.
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Hybridization
The processes of interethnic contact and decolonization, globalizing processes, travel and border crossing, and artistic, literary, and mass communicational fusions. A way of accepting and acknowledging the impurity of race especially in Latin America.
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Multitemporal heterogeneity
A consequence of a history in which modernization rarely operated through substitution of the traditional and ancient. Some things that have resulted is in the combination of languages and the creation of a new accepted language such as Spanglish, mixed influences of indigenous art and architecture styles with European influences.
