Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is an interview with the Peruvian artist Ciro Palacios, who at the time led the newly formed SUTAP (Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de las Artes Plásticas). Ciro Palacios explained that the union was formed on the sociopolitical commitment of [...]

This brief document by writer José Armas summarizes the ideas of a group of Chicano writers and artists from the states of Washington, California, Texas, and New Mexico who met in Lubbock, Texas, with the intention of forming an artistic and [...]

This report by José Armas is of a meeting between multiple Chicano artists and writers, held for the purpose of establishing a union in support of the promotion of Chicano cultural production. The document provides detailed background information on [...]

In this text, the painter José Clemente Orozco states that the “Manifiesto del Sindicato” [the Painters and Sculptors Manifesto] is “extraordinarily important; its influence has been felt for two decades and younger painters [...]

In this article, Oswald de Andrade claims there is an urgent need to create a modern art museum in the city of São Paulo, underscoring the fragile nature of and almost nonexistent institutional support for the Brazilian art system. De Andrade [...]

In his essay, critic Sérgio Milliet analyzes the painting taking place in São Paulo at the end of the 1930s, with an eye toward two exhibitions: the first, at the II Salão de Maio and the other, at the Salão do Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos ( [...]

The Sindicato de Pintores y Escultores [SOTPE, Union of Painters and Sculptors] protests the damages sustained to the paintings that “decorate” the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. David Alfaro Siqueiros, Xavier Guerrero and Diego Rivera argue that [...]