Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article, the theoretician Marta Traba critiques the 1978 Salón Nacional de Artistas. The Salón has been an annual fixture since 1940, and is considered the most important event on the Colombian visual arts calendar. In her article, Traba [...]

Gloria Pachón Castro, the journalist from the Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo, interviews the painter Luciano Jaramillo following the jury’s decision at the XVII Salón de Artistas Nacionales [17th National Artists Salon] (1965).  This article quotes [...]

Marta Traba’s review of Insectos [Insects]—the exhibition of works by the painter Luciano Jaramillo at the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia [Colombian National Library]—appeared in the Art Criticism section of La Nueva Prensa magazine. [...]