Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is a quote from Ralph de Romero, a Puerto Rican artist born in New York, which is accompanied by a pen and ink drawing: “Depression limitates [sic] the creative activity, deteriorates the involvement and mutilates the concept.” Written in [...]

In this manifesto, Ralph de Romero, a Puerto Rican artist born in New York, expresses his thoughts about human existence. In his opinion, social discipline imposes rules he does not care to sign on to. And he is emphatic: he must be allowed to live [...]

This is a pen and ink drawing made by Ralph de Romero, a Puerto Rican artist born in New York. In the lower left-hand corner there is a sentence that also serves as a title, “BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN DEEP” [La belleza está sólo a flor de piel [...]

In this short essay, Ralph de Romero, a Puerto Rican artist born in New York, expresses his thoughts about the differences that emerge in painting, whether as the subject of an intellectual conversation or in terms of its significance to him as a [...]

In this set of four brief poems, Ralph de Romero, a Puerto Rican artist born in New York, expresses his thoughts about painting and art. Some of the themes he addresses in his poems are related to defining art and its elements, and he also reveals [...]