Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This anonymous article provides a brief review of the exhibition schedule that the Venezuelan artist, curator, and museologist, Miguel Arroyo, who at the time was the director of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, is organizing. The curator’ [...]

Written by Enrique Salinas, this article was included in the cultural section of the Zacatecas (Mexico) newspaper Imagen, of which he was the editor. It reports the opening of the exhibition Barichara, lo visible de lo invisible at Galeria Arroyo de [...]

This text was written for the series Art of Latin America Today: Venezuela by the critic and art historian Clara Diament Sujo. The text historically summarized the development of contemporary art in Venezuela from the Pre-Columbian, colonial, and [...]

This text by curator Zuleiva Vivas provides a visual overview of and a reflection on the works by Ricardo Alcaide, Nelsón Garrido, María Eugenia Arria, Alberto Asprino, Mauricio Lupini, Alfredo Ramírez, Luisa Richter, Fabiola Sequera, Jesús [...]

In this essay, the critic Carlos Silva provides a general description of Luisa Richter’s work. He mentions her main influences, in particular German post-Expressionism and the German maestros Hans Fähnle, H. Dähn, Rudolf Müller and, especially, [...]

In this [1993] essay, the critic Ricardo Pau-Llosa states that the objective sought by Luisa Richter is to recover the essential from the visual languages of Abstract art. Through such languages, the Venezuelan painter represents complex ideas about [...]

In the work of Luisa Richter, the art critic Roberto Guevara finds two dimensions that give consistency to two ways of expressing the vocation of the human being: on the one hand, vehemence and passion, and on the other, multiple memories tied to [...]

In his review of Luisa Richter’s paintings, Kurt Leonhard lists the criteria that might be used to rate a work of art, such as its originality, openness, innovative expression, and “energy for change.” Leonhard studies her work, paying [...]

In this text, Juan Calzadilla analyzes Luisa Richter’s work in drawing while also providing an overview of the drawing genre in the post-World War II era—a time when there was widespread interest in the graphic arts in general. Calzadilla [...]

In this essay, Marco Rodríguez del Camino mentions all the exhibitions that the German-born Venezuelan artist Luisa Richter has presented during the course of her career, while focusing on the issue of composition, which is the central theme of the [...]

In this essay on Luisa Richter [written in 1969], the critic Juan Calzadilla provides an overview of Venezuelan art during the 1950s and 1960s. He refers to some of the artists whose work has evolved whether through different styles (Action painting [...]