Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The curator Miguel Arroyo wrote the introduction to the book Sin Arco by the graphic designer Gerd Leufert. In his text, Arroyo reviews the idea of the “arrow” from its symbolic content to its graphic connotation including a discussion of the [...]

Much of this interview by journalist Olga González with Venezuelan artist Alirio Palacios revolves around Palacios’s training as a graphic artist. He mentions his time at the Escuela Cristóbal Rojas and his trips to Rome, Geneva, Beijing, Warsaw [...]

This lengthy statement by Jesús Ruiz Durand was obtained by the sociologist and journalist Maruja Barrig. The graphic artist provides autobiographical information and discusses his various educational and professional periods. He describes his time [...]

The Uruguayan artist Luis Solari writes to the Puerto Rican artist Lorenzo Homar to thank him for his earlier letter in which Homar wrote about his trip to Cali, Colombia, to organize a silkscreen workshop. Solari says he is happy to hear this news [...]

In this letter to Puerto Rican printmaker Lorenzo Homar, Colombian artist Pedro Alcántara discusses various problems that had arisen at the Museo La Tertulia in Cali after completion of the first graphic portfolio. Alcántara mentions that architect [...]

Argentine critic Rafael Squirru writes a critical review of an exhibition of posters held at the Taller de Gráfica [Graphic Art Workshop] of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP) [Institute of Puerto Rican Culture]. This workshop was led by [...]

Libero Badii affirms the importance of spiritual continuity implicit in artistic creation. He discusses his ideas concerning woman, man, and his conception of the portrait, based on the notion of “life equals art.” He presents a timeline of an [...]