Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

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 [...]

This catalog, published as a tribute to Joaquín Clausell, includes two texts. The first, by painter Roberto Montenegro, entitled “El artista” [The Artist] starts off with a brief survey of the representation of Mexican landscape from the pre- [...]

This is the last installment of an article in four parts by painters David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jean Charlot, about the character of the current movement of painting in Mexico. The article, as foretold by the title, is going to be about the positive [...]

Luis E. Bustamante interviews the Mexican artist Dr. Atl at the Convento de la Merced. During the tour of the convent where Dr. Atl then lived, the reporter describes the riches of the building as well as different works by the artist, describing the [...]

In this article, Honduran writer Rafael Heliodoro Valle provides a panorama of the most important moments in the history of Mexican painting. Valle claims that Mexico’s artistic production is preeminent and widely praised by international critics. [...]