Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

While art critic Jorge Romero Brest’s influence was international in scope, it was particularly great in Latin America and the Río de la Plata region. His regional prestige as a lecturer was also considerable and, in 1940, he was invited to give a [...]

In this text, the critic Francisco Da Antonio reviews an exhibition of drawings by the Venezuelan painter Pascual Navarro held at Galería XX2 in Caracas. The review questions the intrinsic nature of a retrospective exhibition that does not include [...]

This newspaper article reproduces the letter from the Venezuelan visual artist Régulo Pérez in which he rejects the 1st Prize in Painting awarded at the Exposición Nacional de Artes Plásticas in 1972. In the letter, Pérez sets forth the reasons [...]

Journalist Carlos Paolillo reviews the Gladys Meneses retrospective exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes (Caracas, 1986). Paolillo discusses the fundamental milestones in the education and career of the Venezuelan artist. These point to a focus on [...]

In this review “Juan Eye” (the pseudonym used by the writer Sebastián Salazar Bondy) discusses the José Sabogal exhibition at the SAP (Sociedad de Arquitectos del Perú, Lima). The author states that Sabogal deserves to be acknowledged in the [...]

This article was published in January 1933 on the occasion of ENBA’s exhibition of paintings by Daniel Hernández, who was the first director of the Peruvian Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes [National School of Fine Arts], and by the school’s [...]

Last of the two articles by Sebastián Salazar Bondy, published under the pseudyonym “Juan Eye,” on the Mexican art exhibition organized by La Crónica newspaper. For the author, if Mexican painting has “laid the foundations for its own school [...]

In his curatorial text for the catalogue Lorenzo Jaramillo published on the occasion of the retrospective of that artist’s work held at the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango in Bogotá, Colombian art historian Germán Rubiano Caballero describes the [...]

The Argentinean essayist Manuel García Hernández—a close friend of Gabriel Bracho—reviews the 1951 exhibition of the artist’s work at the Salón Peuser, which he deems “one of the most brilliant galleries” in Buenos Aires. Hernández [...]

In this article, Luis Vidales reflects on the art of caricature after viewing an exhibition of works by the young artist Omar Rayo, who distorts and contorts lianas to create his images. Vidales begins by asking where caricature stands within the [...]

The Puerto Rican critic Efraín Barradas writes about the full schedule of exhibitions in the United States, where he lives; according to him very few include Latin American art, since little is known about Latin American artists and their work. Be [...]

The text deals with the creation of the Galería Universitaria, whose objectives were “to stimulate the creation of art, to encourage the development of the visual arts, and to make national and foreign art of the highest quality widely known [...]