Heritage approach to the Tovar Museum of Art collection

This article studies the importance of the collection of the Museo de Arte de Tovar "José Lorenzo de Alvarado" from the fundamental notions of cultural heritage, which implies analyzing its historical, aesthetic, artistic and social character as a living memory of the artistic tradition of Tovar. It is significant to review the procedures that have made possible the profile of the collection from the premise of the aesthetic manifestation that has as its main foundation the painting made by the so-called Group of Tovar protected within the precepts of postmodernism, specifically from the conception of transvanguardia. Special emphasis is made on the fact that it is an artistic production that maintains parallelism with the art produced in the great capitals in spite of being gestated in a peripheral place. It allows to investigate the works of the diverse national artists of the collection that constitute a microcosm of geometric abstraction and a look at the tendencies of postmodernism in Venezuela.