Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

After a number of years of inactivity, the Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes (CNBA) was restructured in 1967. While the commission was largely supportive of the Uruguayan government, it included a wide range of representatives of the artistic and [...]

This article is the fruit of research carried out by the journal El Mate on the founding, in 1935, of the Unión de Artistas Plásticos del Uruguay (UAPU)—the first union of visual artists in the country—and on its quick demise due to severe [...]

This unsigned article is an editorial for the magazine El Mate, published by the Grupo Toledo Chico. It commemorates the February 1929 death of Rafael Barradas, an artist who lived in Spain for years. The article points out the merits of the [...]

This document is the second issue of the journal El Mate, published by the Grupo Toledo Chico of the Department of Canelones, Uruguay, in December 1966. It attests to the polemic, in the sphere of visual art, on the country’s broader cultural and [...]

This essay describes the merits of Chilean-Uruguayan artist Felipe Seade, an advocate of social realism, and harshly criticizes all of those who hindered his career. The frictions between practitioners of social realism and those who disdained it on [...]

Published in 1966 by the Grupo Toledo Chico, the essay “El XV Salón Municipal de Artes Plásticas” is a far-reaching criticism of the Salón Municipal de Artes Plásticas—its organization, bylaws, and administrative and social policy—after [...]