Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Mário Schenberg believes that the exhibition Propostas 65 marks a high point in the debate about Brazilian art and reflects the shift (in taste) from Abstraction to Realism, and thus emphasizes the impact of advertising images which, in his opinion [...]

Brazilian Concrete art theorist Waldemar Cordeiro discusses the exhibition Propostas 65, which was conceived and organized by artists. In Cordeiro’s view, what is called “proposal” art is radical insofar as it entails collective, rather than [...]

Architect Sérgio Ferro affirms in this text that new painting in Brazil may be characterized by re-establishing a connection to the surrounding reality, and the levels of abstraction achieved by concrete art, informal art, and tachisme were [...]