Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, Ione Saldanha recalls how the third Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna, known as the Salão Preto e Branco (Black-and-White Salon), influenced both her work and Brazilian modernism more broadly. She remembers having works in [...]

This is the transcript of an interview—broadcast during a radio program, Clube da Crítica—in which the host, Pascoal Longo, discusses the third Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna with the Brazilian painter Djanira. Speaking as [...]

The art critic Mário Pedrosa recalls that, on a visit to the Brazilian artist Djanira’s studio he was reminded of the landscape problem in Brazilian painting. In his opinion Alfredo Volpi came up with a “masterly” solution by capturing the [...]