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title: "Combatants"
summary: "Combatants. Página institucional de Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Externado de Colombia. Photo credits: Ana Patricia Palacio Click on the image to enlarge Fifteen panels with vibrant colours and chequered backgrounds, arranged in three rows, provide the setting for portraits of children alongside animals, structures, decorative motifs, and plants."
description: "Photo credits: Ana Patricia Palacio Click on the image to enlarge Fifteen panels with vibrant colours and chequered backgrounds, arranged in three rows, provide the setting for portraits of children alongside animals, structures, decorative motifs, and plants."
url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/combatientes/"
type: "page"
language: "en-US"
site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia"
section: "Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional"
updated: "2026-06-11T14:21:45-05:00"
---

Publicado: 9 of November of 2021

# Combatants

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[Gallery 2. Rights](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/)

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**Photo credits: Ana Patricia Palacio**  
Click on the image to enlarge

#### Ana Patricia Palacios

2012- 2015  
Mixed on canvas  
273 x 230 cm

Fifteen panels with vibrant colours and chequered backgrounds, arranged in three rows, provide the setting for portraits of children alongside animals, structures, decorative motifs, and plants. The multicoloured and dynamic composition evokes childhood play and joy; however, the artist depicts young combatants involved in global conflicts throughout history as anonymous and innocent figures. In a stark contrast between childhood and warfare, the piece questions war, child recruitment, violence, and the right of minors to the free development of personality, as enshrined in Article 16 of the Constitution and analysed in rulings C-541 of 2017 and C-340 of 1998.

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#### See

[About the Artwork](https://issuu.com/celsia/docs/tomo1_completo_febrero9)[Exhibition Catalogue](https://www.academia.edu/8704108/Cat%C3%A1logo_Exposici%C3%B3n_The_World_Through_Ana_s_eyes._Obra_artista_colombiana_Ana_Patricia_Palcios)

[About the Artist](https://www.banrepcultural.org/warhol/colombia/gutierrez.html)

[Sentencia C-541 de 2017. Menores en el conflicto armado](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2017/C-541-17.htm)

[Sentencia C-340 de 1998. Vinculación de menores al servicio militar](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/1998/C-340-98.htm)

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