Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The critic Juan Carlos Palenzuela interviews the visual artist Luis Alfredo López Méndez. The conversation yields information about the latter’s work as a painter, teacher, diplomat, congressman, TV program producer, journalist with the Cí [...]

In the first part of his extensive review of the Exposición del Paisaje Venezolano, which took place in 1942 at the Museo de Bellas Artes of Caracas, Enrique Planchart establishes a chronological framework that distinguishes the pioneers (he calls [...]

In its third and final installment, the review written by Enrique Planchart on the Exposición del Paisaje Venezolano, the author contemplates the works of some artists that he identifies with the following phrases: “extensive work” (Marcos [...]

[In 1981,] the writer Miguel Otero Silva wrote an introduction to the catalogue for an exhibition of the work of the Venezuelan artist Luis Alfredo López Méndez. This text discusses the artist’s training, the influences that affected him and his [...]

Maritza Jiménez  interviews Luis Alfredo López Méndez, the Venezuelan artist, who talks about the countries he has lived in since being expelled from Venezuela by dictator Juan Vicente Gómez [1908-15, 1922-35], and the work he pursued to survive [...]