Whether the metropolis was located in the Greece of Pericles, in the Rome of the Empire, in the Italy of the Renaissance, in the France of the 21st and 20th centuries, or finally in New York, since the 1950s. The provincial artist, the marginal artist always seemed to be in a colonial situation, politically, socially and culturally imposed from the capitals. In pre-Columbian times, Andean artists proposed certain forms, certain techniques to express them, certain results, an art that was obviously autonomous.