Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is a review of works by Rómulo Rozo, written in Paris by Hugo D. Barbagelata. It begins by quoting the words written by the French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who was highly complimentary of Rozo’s artistic abilities: “I hope that Colombia [...]

In this text, Daniel Samper Ortega critically discusses certain events that took place on the Colombian art scene in 1929. First, he bemoans the death of artist Roberto Pizano, an important figure on the Colombian art scene, largely due to his work [...]

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In this essay written for Revista Colombiana, the art critic Javier Arango Ferrer declares himself to be in favor of nationalism. He carefully and shrewdly reviews the works of the sculptors Rómulo Rozo and Marco Tobón Mejía, and the painter Marco [...]

In “De cómo se expresa en arte el pueblo colombiano” [On How Colombians Express Themselves in Art] (1934), the Colombian intellectual Luis López de Mesa reviews the history of Colombian art during the colonial period. He describes this period [...]

When asked about the state of decorative arts in Colombia, critic Carlos Arturo Tapias Sánchez responds that there is just the faintest suggestion of an innovative tendency in the work of sculptors Rómulo Rozo and Ramón Barba. The first, Tapias S [...]

Max Grillo provides a detailed description of the life of Colombian sculptor Rómulo Rozo, including the difficulties he faced while studying in Paris at both the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi. Rozo maintains that his greatest teacher [...]