Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article, the journalist Víctor Alberto Grillet describes both the legend of “María Lionza” and the painting by Pedro Centeno Vallenilla. Grillet speaks highly of the Venezuelan painter’s Americanist style—which he says differs from [...]

In this article, Víctor Alberto Grillet introduces Feliciano Carvallo as a “primitive artist,” discovered a year earlier by the painters Louys Rawlinson and Alirio Oramas and the Cuban writer María Luisa Gómez Mena in a small village on the [...]