Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, Daniel Samper Ortega critically discusses certain events that took place on the Colombian art scene in 1929. First, he bemoans the death of artist Roberto Pizano, an important figure on the Colombian art scene, largely due to his work [...]

Writer Gustavo Santos Montejo begins his essay on the now closed Museo de Bellas Artes (also known as the Museo de la Escuela de Bellas Artes) with a tribute to artist and cultural advocate Roberto Pizano Restrepo, who—in the late twenties—was [...]

In this article, art critic Gustavo Santos discusses Roberto Pizano Restrepo’s first exhibition, held at the Academia de la Lengua in Bogotá in April 1923. In Santos’s view, Pizano’s knowledge of universal art enhances his work as a painter, [...]

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“El Salón Nacional de Pintura: En el país de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey” is an interview-conversation between the editorial staff of the magazine Alternativa and four important figures in Colombian art of the seventies: Colombian-Cuban art [...]

Colombian artist Gonzalo Ariza addresses three issues in this article. First, the fifth edition of the Salón Nacional de Artistas, which he describes as a “success” in terms of attendance, the participating artists, and the quality of the works [...]

The point of departure for this text by Gustavo Santos Montejo that was published on the occasion of the closing of the 1922 Exposición de Arte francés [Exhibition of French Art] is artist Roberto Pizano’s article “La exposición de arte franc [...]

The poet Víctor Amaya González interviewed Roberto Pizano in 1925, when the latter was named director of the Escuela de Bellas Artes [School of Fine Arts] in Bogotá. The interview was then included in Roberto Pizano, the book published by [...]

In this article written in 1923, Roberto Pizano analyzes the specificities of a painting exhibition held at the Parque de la Independencia in Bogotá that brought together work by a large number of local artists. Pizano used the exhibition as an [...]

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Colombian writer Daniel Samper Ortega starts this essay discussing the situation facing the artistic professions in Colombia during the first quarter of the twentieth century. He asserts that the position of writers and visual artists is particularly [...]