Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article, written for the magazine published by the AIAPE (Agrupación de Intelectuales, Artistas, Periodistas, Escritores), Sofía Arzarello recalls the art historian and theorist Elie Faure’s influential work, shortly before his death. [...]

Damián Bayón begins with a brief characterization of the conflicting personalities of Van Gogh and Gauguin, and then characterizes their respective pictorial qualities—drawing, composition, color, impasto, and light—always examining them from a [...]

In this article, Damián Bayón addresses some of Auguste Rodin’s ideas on creation and art. Bayón describes certain aspects of the French sculptor’s working method and personality, while also analyzing some specific works. Before doing so, the [...]

This article by Damián Bayón presents and analyzes the book by Wilhelm Wörringer, Form in Gothic [Formprobleme der Gotik, 1912]. He states that it is a “masterpiece,” but this does not prevent Bayón from pointing out certain discrepancies [...]

This article deals with the work of the different Spanish artists that Damián Bayón had the opportunity to analyze during his stay in Barcelona, where he was reporting for Ver y estimar. He covered the sets and costumes that Salvador Dalí designed [...]