Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This article is one of the few that describes the murals painted in several primary schools in Mexico, thus it allows us to know what it was like before its total or partial destruction. The title of this mural by Pablo O’Higgins was Vida y [...]

This short document tells us about the mural at the Confederación Campesina [Mexican Peasants Confederation] “Emiliano Zapata” in the city of Puebla. The fine arts department of the SEP [Ministry of Public Education] commissioned the work from [...]

Luis Islas y García discusses the young painter Roberto Reyes Pérez, whose constructive, sober values he saw as a far cry from the “widespread artistic decadence” of the time. Islas y García considers Reyes Pérez’s painting to be strong, [...]

Jorge Piñó Sandoval’s article is based on a survey of contemporary artists regarding the situation of Mexican national art. The questions were directed toward the role and importance of the popular arts, particularly folklore, and the development [...]

This article contains an interview with the commission of Mexican painters (comprised of José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Roberto Reyes Pérez) and the deputy-minister Bernardo Gastelum; the commissio] warns him that the students of [...]

This author describes the mural commission for the functionalist education center in Mexico City, with images accompanying his review. He emphasizes the collective nature of the works as well as the paintings’ subjects. The author applauds the [...]

This document contains a description of the inauguration of the 1935 poster exhibition in Morelia at the Centro Cultural Obrero [The Workers’ Cultural Center], which had previously been expropriated. It reproduces fragments of the speech by Roberto [...]

This is an interview in which Manuel Maples Arce, the founding father of Estridentismo movement, explains his most recent avant-garde battleground set at the bookstore Librería de César Cicerón and the new aesthetics announcement of what is being [...]