Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This extensive article by Guillermo Valencia Castillo discusses the work of Colombian artist Ricardo Acevedo Bernal. In the introduction, Valencia Castillo addresses the obstacles that had to be overcome before Acevedo Bernal came to be considered [...]

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This is an anonymous art-criticism article (by R. M.) about the Salón de 1910 [1910 Salon], published on the first page of the conservative newspaper, La Unidad. The writer begins with the hypothesis that the senses are the essential instrument for [...]

This is a letter written by Francisco Barrera, a columnist at La Unidad in Bogotá, to Laureano Gómez, in response to his opinion on the best paintings at the Salón de Arte de 1910 [1910 Art Salon]. As his first choice, Barrera chooses and [...]

The brochure for the “Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes” [National Exhibition of Fine Arts], written by Carlos Miguel Pizarro on October 15, 1899 criticizes the procedures that were followed for awarding prizes at that year’s National [...]

The article “En el Salón de Pintura” [At the Painting Salon] (1919)—published (anonymously) in the magazine El Gráfico—advocates a conversation to review the exhibition organized by the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes [National School of [...]

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 Colombian poet Max Grillo claims that there is an aesthetic sense that is common to all the arts. In his opinion, to enjoy the visual arts, literature, or music, one must have the ability to feel and understand the emotions that are inherent to [...]

In “De cómo se expresa en arte el pueblo colombiano” [On How Colombians Express Themselves in Art] (1934), the Colombian intellectual Luis López de Mesa reviews the history of Colombian art during the colonial period. He describes this period [...]

This article by Ricardo Hinestrosa Daza is divided into ten parts. In the first, the author discusses the concept of “emotion” formulated by educator Baldomero Sanín Cano in the November 1904 and January 1905 issues of Revista Contemporánea. In [...]

This article provides a brief overview of Colombian art and a diagnosis of its general state in 1942. Luis Alberto Acuña asserts that Colombian art history can be divided into three distinct periods: the pre-Hispanic, the viceregal, and the [...]

In this interview with Colombian journalist and poet Eduardo Castillo (known as “El Caballero Duende”), Colombian painter Coriolano Leudo speaks of his early days as an artist making backdrops for theater sets. It was thanks to this work that he [...]

This interview by Caballero Duende focuses on the education and artistic preferences of Colombian artist Francisco Antonio Cano, as well as the general situation of art education. In 1899 and 1900, Cano traveled in Europe, visiting and studying in a [...]