Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This short article lists forty drawings that were published in El Machete in 1924 along with their titles, original dimensions, and prices, although the names of the draftsmen or the techniques used were not given. The drawings would be exhibited on [...]

In this brief article, Siqueiros, the secretary of the Sindicato de Pintores y Escultores [SOTPE, Painters and Sculptors Union], reports that the painters laid off from their work on public buildings due to the machinations of “reactionary” [...]

In his function as a member of the editorial committee for El Machete, Xavier Guerrero affirms that the objective of the publication was to fight against the enemies of the Mexican people, whom he identifies as the intellectuals and critics who favor [...]

In 1944, David Alfaro Siqueiros wrote an open letter to José Clemente Orozco in which he admitted that he could identify the different stages of his work. Siqueiros begins by saying that an artist’s work is not an individual creation but the [...]

David Alfaro Siqueiros, writing in El Machete, invites the proletariat to discuss their problems. His goal is to counter the middle-class press, where the disenfranchised are unrepresented. The article explains that the walls of public buildings have [...]