The acceptance of modern art in Colombia occurred decades after the break with the academy, between 1945 and 1960, when critics began to accept the influence of international art critics on the country's art production. The artists who consolidated this new visual art shared a need to question the aesthetic premises of nationalist art, as well as to distance themselves from the difficulties the Colombian art scene was facing due to bipartisan violence and critical skepticism toward abstract art, given that realism and figuration had established themselves as the only valid visual arts in the country during the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s.
