Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In his critique, Roberto Guevara reflects on the history of landscape (as a pictorial genre in Venezuela) and the role played within it by Venezuelan painter and graphic designer José Antonio Quintero. After evaluating the distinct stages of this [...]

In his critique, Roberto Guevara reflects on the work of Venezuelan artist José Antonio Quintero, for his show at the Sala Mendoza (Caracas 1981). He states the painter voluntarily takes up the challenge of reevaluating the characteristics of urban [...]

In this essay Mara Comerlati discusses Colinas, árboles y valles, the exhibition of works by José Antonio Quintero at the Sala Mendoza (Caracas, 1981). In this series of drawings and paintings inspired by his observations of the countryside in the [...]

This text by Juan Calzadilla quotes ideas stated by the Venezuelan painter José Antonio Quintero about his own work. In his comments, the artist highlights the fact that his landscapes (whether realistic or imaginary scenes) are personal stories of [...]

This is the Venezuelan critic Roberto Montero Castro’s review of the exhibition Once Tipos de 1977 (Sala Mendoza, Caracas). He discusses the evolution of the Venezuelan visual arts, suggesting that it was interrupted in the 1950s. He analyzes [...]

In this article, Elsa Flores reviews the works by the eleven Venezuelan artists who participated in the exhibition Once Tipos (Sala Mendoza, Caracas, 1981): William Stone, Corina Briceño, Rolando Dorrego, Héctor Fuenmayor, Ana María Mazzei, Manuel [...]

In the book 11 tipos. Arte en Venezuela en los años setenta, the researcher Juan Carlos Palenzuela makes an exhaustive study of Venezuelan art in the1970s, a time when conceptual art was unquestionably being produced in that country. The author [...]