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Archaeology
In 1968 Alfredo Boulton began his work on a subject barely treated in Venezuela, where the art of the nomadic and semi-nomadic population of the pre-Hispanic period was looked down on with some contempt. The archaeological archives of Alfredo Boulton hold a considerable number of photographs, record cards and different documents concerning pre-Hispanic ceramics in Venezuela, studied from a strictly artistic perspective. Many of these pieces have since disappeared and only these images endure ….
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Aboriginal ceramics are just about the only remaining material evidence today, of our pre-Hispanic population. I have frequently noticed in some of these artifacts, a high sense of beauty which I have tried to bring out in these photographs to prove we had very fine craftsmen in the art of mud and fire, such as, the potters of Barrancas, circa 1.000 B.C.