Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this brief overview of the life of Spanish painter José Gutiérrez Solana, Colombian artist Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo criticizes the overly academic Spanish art scene of the first decade of the 20th century and describes its social context. Solana [...]

The artist, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo, presented an exhibition of the Colombian painters, Darío Jiménez Villegas and Jorge Elías Triana, at the Biblioteca Benjamín Franklin [Benjamin Franklin Library] in Mexico City. In his essay, Gómez Jaramillo [...]

In this article, the Colombian painter, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo, comments on the first individual exhibition by the young painter, Alejandro Obregón. To introduce the artist, Gómez Jaramillo emphasizes his training in the Catalan milieu where he [...]

Before this article by Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo appeared in the Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo, he read from it on Balance del medio siglo [Balance of the Half Century], the national Colombian TV program hosted by the Argentine art critic Marta Traba. G [...]

This one-and-a-half column article written in 1944 by Colombian artist Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo precedes Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros’s text, “Finalidad técnico-social del nuevo arte mural en América.” Together they comprise two [...]

In this 1956 article, Ignacio Gómez Jaramillo presents his interpretation of muralism in Mexico. He asserts that mural paintings of historical events serve as the pictorial expression of written subjects, thus showing the people milestones of their [...]