Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This review of the caricaturist Ricardo Rendón was written a few days after his death. The writer of the review, Enrique Millán, explains that his goal was to record certain details of the artist’s life and work. Millán is surprised that Rendón [...]

In this text, Colombian writer Darío Jaramillo Agudelo voices his assessment of works included in an exhibition held at the Museo de Arte Moderno of Medellín in 1983. In his view, these works represent a new form of academicism in Colombia, one [...]

Professor Nicolás Bayona Posada, who was also a journalist, interviews the caricaturist Ricardo Rendón, who states that “the essential element in a caricature is not the drawing; it is the model.” Rendón also says that to capture the spectacle [...]

Caricaturist Ricardo Rendón formed part of the Medellín-based group “Los Panidas,” whose members were painters and writers concerned with invigorating the Colombian art scene. This text is a brief, but significant profile of Rendón by “Pepe [...]

In this article, Luis Vidales Jaramillo discusses the historical and sociological importance of the portrait artist and caricaturist Ricardo Rendón and the universality of his work. Vidales reflects on the eternal nature of genuine works of art. He [...]