the hispanic - american art is displayed visually as a result of rendering complex, where European art and Spanish art itself, in its investigation of styles and schools, are mixed in plastic exercise of American artists and craftsmen with the forms and techniques developed so far and in conjunction with the procedures established to represent and to make art developed in the colony. This discussion points to the understanding of the role ritual, social and political of the image in a context where the battle of the signs was torn between the new order of body and mind and imagination Hispanic settled colonized subjects.