Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

After criticizing the selection made in the United States to represent Brazil at the Latin American Exhibition of Visual Arts that was held in New York during the 1939 World’s Fair, the great Brazilian polymath, Mário de Andrade continues by [...]

In his essay, critic Sérgio Milliet analyzes the painting taking place in São Paulo at the end of the 1930s, with an eye toward two exhibitions: the first, at the II Salão de Maio and the other, at the Salão do Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos ( [...]

In this article, the painter Mozart [de Brito] Firmeza addresses a couple of matters: on one hand, he discusses the nationalist approach to art, adapted from the earlier academic tradition of an idealized landscape that portrays “the beauty” of [...]