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¿Cuál es el pintor más grande de México?
1922In the Survey Section, the journalist Ortega decided to go to the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria to ask the painters there the following question: Who is the greatest painter in Mexico? The caricaturist Ernesto García Cabral ironically responds that [...]ICAA Record ID: 755251 -
¿Dónde están las nubes?
1986In this essay, the critic Roberto Guevara discusses the Cuban-born Venezuelan painter Rolando Dorrego’s career and latest work. Guevara begins with a review of the art movement of the early 1970s (in which Dorrego was an active participant), which [...]ICAA Record ID: 1165822 -
"Qué arte abstracto ni que nada, el arte es esencialmente uno...": lo que debe hacer el pintor es "pintar", manifestó Sérvulo Gutiérrez
1951In this text, Sérvulo Gutiérrez asserts that any classification that entails “dividing art” is conventional and falls into pigeonholing. It is misguided since it implies taking “a part for the whole.” Sérvulo Gutiérrez questions whether [...]ICAA Record ID: 1150851 -
“Estéticamente reaccionarios” son los pintores modernos : Dice el pintor David Alfaro Siqueiros
1947Antonio Rodríguez portrayed painter David Alfaro Siqueiros as an avant-garde artist because of his approach to using new pictorial materials. In this interview, Siqueiros declared that contemporary painters remained “impassive before the progress [...]ICAA Record ID: 758048 -
[Antes que las valoraciones y los juicios...]
1967This text written by the art critic Roberto Guevara is the preface to the catalogue for the exhibition Pinturas, which exhibited work by the French artist Marcel Floris, who had been living in Caracas since 1950. The exhibition was held at the Museo [...]ICAA Record ID: 1154811 -
[Aparte de ser el seudónimo sortario de Juan Vicente Hernández...]
1981Curator Juan Calzadilla begins his essay on the Venezuelan painter known as “Pájaro” [Juan Vicente Hernández] by pointing out the similarity between some, though not all, aspects of his work and orthodox Surrealism. Calzadilla comments on the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1163174 -
[Dedico esta estrofa del poema Elevation de Les Fleurs du Mal...]
1979Researcher and historian Bélgica Rodríguez analyzes the work of Hugo Baptista in a biographical text with quotations made by the painter; beginning with the artist’s move to Caracas in 1951 so that he could enroll in Vicente Emilio Sojo’s [...]ICAA Record ID: 1169482 -
[El desarrollo de la obra pictórica de Susana Amundaraín...]
1992The art critic and researcher Eliseo Sierra reviews a decade of the life and art of the Venezuelan painter Susana Amundaraín, from her beginnings in the 1980s through 1992. After reviewing the art world at the time she began to produce art, the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1163845 -
[Es bastante excepcional el caso de pintores...]
1970Here, the French critic and journalist Thiébault-Sisson performs an exhaustive review of the artistic life of the painter Emilio Boggio. The article comments on his artistic beginnings and his relationships with his teacher Jean-Paul Laurens and his [...]ICAA Record ID: 1161716 -
[Hablando de...]
In this notebook, which is one of several kept by Colombian artist Carlos Rojas, the author writes down thirty-two points essential to his art. Written like a manifesto, this particular manuscript contains ideas that Rojas considers innate to his [...]ICAA Record ID: 1089916 -
[Haciendo un intento por recordar que causas me indujeron a pintar...]
1965In this essay, the Spanish artist Angel Luque—who lived in Venezuela from 1955 to 1967— analyzes the factors that led him to painting. He describes what the concept of “risk” means to him, as applied to both art and life in general. Luque [...]ICAA Record ID: 1156779 -
[Hemos llegado hasta casi la cumbre del cerro...]
1977This text was written by Félix Nakamura for the catalogue for the exhibition Los pintores de Sarhua, that took place at the Huamanqaqa Gallery in Lima in 1977. Nakamura provides an account of his visit to the workshop operated by the artists Víctor [...]ICAA Record ID: 1140950 -
[Insere-se nossa primeira recordação de Livio Abramo num pequeno desenho...]
1972To the art critic Geraldo Ferraz, Lívio Abramo’s artwork departs from a drawing that then gradually begins to give way to “expressionist manipulations” etched on “bad” wood. Towards the end of the thirties, Abramo, who was a journalist, [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110574 -
[Letter] 1930 junio 25, Lima, [to] Antonino Espinosa Saldaña
1930This is a letter that was sent by José Sabogal in response to his colleague, Antonino Espinosa Saldaña, who requested his opinion on the polemics surrounding the course on “Inca Art” that was being offered at the ENBA (Escuela Nacional de [...]ICAA Record ID: 1143586 -
[Letter] 1972 November 10, Cali, Colombia [to] Mariano Rodríguez
1972This is a letter from Colombian artist Pedro Alcántara to Cuban painter Mariano Rodríguez, in which the former warns the latter that the painter Carlos Granada—who represented Colombia at the Encuentro de Plástica Latinoamericana [Latin American [...]ICAA Record ID: 823924 -
[Los cuadros que explico en esta exposición...]
1947This draft of a text by painter Antonino Espinosa Saldaña was for a presentation at an exhibition of his work that did not take place. In it he justifies the absence of titles or any references for the works, “because one should not impose a [...]ICAA Record ID: 1143457 -
[The work selected for this exhibition traces the last years...]
1982In her brief introduction to the exhibition catalogue, Children of Darkness: Rafael Colón Morales, curator Gladys Peña asserts that Colón Morales broke away from the traditional painting of Puerto Rico by experimenting with both surrealist and [...]ICAA Record ID: 842215 -
[Un verdadero lenguaje, en pintura...]
1973Juan Calzadilla discusses the work of the painter José Campos Biscardi, explaining how hard it was for him to be acknowledged in the Venezuelan art world because he was originally from Colombia. The author attributes it to the fact that Campos [...]ICAA Record ID: 1157573 -
2° Manifiesto Treintatrentista
1928In the second treinta-treintista manifesto, the group declares the reason for its dispute. It states that the struggle between independent painters and the academics intensified when the presidency changed hands, since certain conservative teachers [...]ICAA Record ID: 779440 -
3er. Manifiesto Treintatrentista
1928The third treinta-treintista manifesto is a flyer written in opposition to the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, its instruction methods, and the works produced at the school. Subdivided into eight points, the group’s statement describes the basic [...]ICAA Record ID: 779450 -
A los pintores peruanos
1951Argentinean architect Ángel Guido—invitee to the I Congreso Internacional de Peruanistas—summarizes the genesis of modern painting in general terms: “Until Impressionism, toward reality. Afterward, toward ‘unreality.’ From there, the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1150943 -
A propósito de Acebedo Bernal [sic]
1899The 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 [...]ICAA Record ID: 1094092 -
A Sierra Beyond Borders
1991In this feature on the Cuban-American artist Paul Sierra, Jeff Huebner writes the artist’s biography, his recent ascent in the mainstream art world, and the attendant conflicts that arose in relationship to his status as a Latino artist. Huebner [...]ICAA Record ID: 840128 -
Actos y conferencias : el pintor D.A. Siqueiros disertó en la Escuela de Bellas Artes anoche
1943This is a newspaper review of “El arte para la victoria y la pintura mexicana moderna,” the lecture given by David Alfaro Siqueiros at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de Lima in March 1943. The painter and political activist informed his [...]ICAA Record ID: 1143245 -
Al margen de una exposición de pintura
1929On the premise that “national art has yet to come into being,” Germán Arciniegas levels harsh criticism at the works by Colombian artists Francisco Antonio Cano, Ricardo Gómez Campuzano, and Domingo Moreno Otero included in an exhibition held [...]ICAA Record ID: 1079409 -
Al margen del manifiesto del Sindicato de Pintores y Escultores
1924This document analyzes the national repercussions that the Sindicato de Obreros Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores [SOTPE, Union of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors] had on an art scene that was then dominated by individualism. Siqueiros [...]ICAA Record ID: 763287 -
Álbum del extremo oriente : Los pintores japoneses
1900This article, published in Revista Moderna [Modern Magazine]?which contributed to the rise of modern art criticism (in particular of the kind inspired by Charles Baudelaire and by the French parameters)?sketches a brief history of Japanese painting. [...]ICAA Record ID: 778184 -
Alejandro Otero, permaneciendo : retrospectiva en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
1985The curator María Elena Ramos provides a broad overview of Alejandro Otero’s oeuvre on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of his work. Ramos reflects on the Venezuelan painter and sculptor’s essential concerns which, in her opinion, wove [...]ICAA Record ID: 1172282 -
Alejandro Romero
1991Author Dorothy Chaplik provides an overview of the life and art of Alejandro Romero, a recognized Chicago-based Mexican painter and muralist. She traces his artistic career from his childhood in Tabasco and youth and Mexico City, when he first [...]ICAA Record ID: 1064478 -
An interview with Ivan Petrovszky by members of the Research Department, Museo de Bellas Artes of Caracas
1983In March 1983, members of the Research Department of the Museo de Bellas Artes in Caracas interviewed the painter Ivan Petrovszky about his exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC (that same year). By way of introduction, the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1167813 -
Anatol Wladyslaw
1961In this brochure produced for the exhibition of works by prizewinners at the 1960 Prêmio Leirner de Arte Contemporânea, Gerardo Ferraz discusses how Anatol Wladyslaw’s work transitioned from the “mathematics and geometry&rdquo [...]ICAA Record ID: 1325562 -
Aníbal Gil, pintor joven regresa de Italia
1957In 1957 Aníbal Gil Villa returned to Medellín after studying art in Italy, where he met other Colombians, including Enrique Grau and Fernando Botero. On his return he said: “I am not trying to paint in this or that style because I think that is a [...]ICAA Record ID: 1131403 -
Antonio Bandeira e a pintura
1951This essay is an article written by the Brazilian art critic Mário Baratta on his visit to the interior of the state of Ceará in 1951 with artist Antonio Bandeira. The article analyzes Bandeira’s work before and after he first resided in Paris [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110781 -
Antonio M. Ruiz
1937Arqueles Vela writes a review of the most recent work by Antonio Ruiz, nicknamed “El Corcito” whom he considers a “contemporary Mexican painter.” He emphasizes the essential traits of his paintings and at the same time reveals a criticism of [...]ICAA Record ID: 764619 -
Apuntes de la inmensidad
1996In this text, critic Federica Palomero explores the development of Venezuelan painter Víctor Hugo Irazábal, from his formative period (the early sixties) and subsequent experimentation with various media and genres through his encounter with the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1167685 -
Armando Lira
1960Painter Bernando Monsanto Cocking analyzes the life and work of Armando Lira. In this text, he succinctly recounts the work of the Chilean-Venezuelan artist as an exponent of Venezuelan culture beginning with his arrival in the country through the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1167717 -
Armando Reverón
1932The 1932 article "Armando Reverón,” written by Venezuelan journalist, writer, and lawyer Julián Padrón is a short biography of Venezuelan artist Armando Reverón, and a description of his working method. Rever& [...]ICAA Record ID: 1125575 -
Aromas de la gracia
1966The art critic Alberto Junyent reviews the second exhibition of works by the Venezuelan painter Héctor Poleo at the Galerie Drouant in Paris in 1966. In his essay, Junyent formally reviews the collection of works as a whole from an aesthetic and [...]ICAA Record ID: 1153851 -
Arte : el mural del capitolio
1947This article in the Revista Semana discusses the research and sketches being done by Santiago Martínez Delgado in order to portray the congressional session in Cúcuta when the Liberator, Simón Bolívar, and General Francisco Santander took office [...]ICAA Record ID: 1134910 -
Arte : Fernando de Szyszlo regresa de París
1951This brief interview with Fernando de Szyszlo took place upon his return to Lima after having lived in Paris—which he calls “a fountain of life”—for a number of years. With enthusiasm, he describes the stimulating cultural milieu of the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1137933 -
Arte cinético es el arte que más integra a la sociedad
1969Journalist Miyó Vestrini interviews Narciso Debourg for his first solo exhibition in Venezuela. The conversation covers the methods of expression used by the Venezuelan painter and sculptor (based in Paris); these include serial usage of elements, [...]ICAA Record ID: 1157625 -
Arte Nacional Puertorriqueño
1945The Puerto Rican educator Luis Quero Chiesa explains that after the printing press was introduced to Puerto Rico in 1806, many newspapers were started and books were published in the nineteenth. From the very beginning, the press was harassed by [...]ICAA Record ID: 823725 -
Arte nacional puertorriqueño
1945Puerto Rican painter and educator Luis Quero Chiesa explains that life is hard for painters in the island because they need to rely on another line of work to survive. In his opinion, Puerto Rican art is an “indigenous art inspired by our symbols [...]ICAA Record ID: 823757 -
Arte peruano : Camilo Blas
1926This article by José Sabogal is about the recent work produced by the Indigenist painter Camilo Blas. The author discusses Blas’ two scenes of Cajamarca that are to decorate the new Salón de Palacio, which opened in 1924 in celebration of the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1289476 -
Arte por tierra
1992In this text, María Luz Cárdenas discusses Ricardo Benaim’s artistic development and the premise presented in Una visión de Gaia, a solo exhibition of his paintings and prints. Cárdenas describes Benaim’s work as an example of critical [...]ICAA Record ID: 1161475 -
Artes Plásticas
1955Here, the writer sketches the artistic development reflected in the work of Alfredo Ruiz Rosas through the five years covered by the exhibition in the Peruvian capital. Bondy acknowledges the persistence of “the same emotion” in the artist’s [...]ICAA Record ID: 1150376 -
Artes plásticas : la pintura en México : carta de Ángel Zárraga a Manuel Rodríguez Lozano
1926In this 1925 letter, Ángel Zárraga acknowledges Manuel Rodríguez Lozano as a painter and a friend. After a brief introduction of indeterminate tone, Zárraga points to his discovery that “Race” and “People” are grandiose concepts that lead [...]ICAA Record ID: 754116 -
Artes-Ciencias-Letras : la exposición Sabogal
1940Though he does not mention a change as such in José Sabogal’s latest paintings, the author detects the presence or hint of certain nuances he had not noticed before. Carlos Raygada compares Procesión del Señor de los Milagros—painted in 1923, [...]ICAA Record ID: 1140572 -
Artistas de vanguardia : César Moro
1925This article by the critic Carlos Raygada is about the painter and poet César Moro, considered “one of the few exponents of modern art in Peru.” According to Raygada, Moro’s work is unknown because it “never appears in the kind of [...]ICAA Record ID: 1146756 -
Arturo Cuenca : Una decada de fotografías : 1983-1993
1993This exhibition essay overviews the trajectory of Arturo Cuenca’s photographic practice from his time spent in Cuba in the 1980s until his arrival in New York in the early 1990s. In the late 1970s, he transitioned from making Photorealist/Pop [...]ICAA Record ID: 1343799