Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Venezuelan writer and journalist Alfredo Schael interviews Omar Carreño in 1973, a year after he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas [National Prize for the Visual Arts]. The author examines the career of the Venezuelan painter and [...]

The essay by Ricardo Pau-Llosa on the work of Cuban-born artist, Humberto Calzada, is divided into three sections. In the first one, “The Symbolism of Order,” Pau-Llosa addresses Calzada’s move from painting elements of colonial Cuban [...]

This article by Ricardo Pau-Llosa focuses on the motif of the human body as the one theme that constantly recurs throughout the work of Cuban-American artists. He notes that this is unique given the distance that they live from one another. So that, [...]

In this article, Gaspar Galaz reviews the works by the Chilean painter Mario Carreño on display at the exhibition Retrospectiva 1945–1988. In the art historian’s opinion, the exhibition does not attempt to present “a grand [...]

Milan Ivelic and Gaspar Galaz developed this questionnaire to be used in their conversations with Mario Carreño, Carmen Aldunate, Rodolfo Opazo, and Ricardo Yrarrázaval about their painting and what they were working on at that time ( [...]