In the first decades of the twentieth century in Bogotá was developed a process of professionalization of the artists which allowed them to improve their status in society and consolidate the roles that identify themselves as representatives of their occupation. This change is evidenced by noting that until the late nineteenth century there was no clear distinction between the categories of artist and craftsman, while for the 1930s began to appear aesthetic proposals that broke with the traditional canons of academic art. Thus, after the application of a theoretical framework based on the sociology and history of the professions and based on the sociologist and social history of art, we analyzed the different stages crossed by the members of this occupation in order to be recognized as professionals. It was possible to show that these types of social processes are very complex, because for understand the dynamics that occur in professional groups is necessary taken into account the different identities of the members: gender, class or region, which generate relations of friendship, enmity and rivalry, which are not always made visible in the investigations that have addressed this period.
